With the publication of "The Great Railway Bazaar" (Houghton Mifflin, 1975), Paul Theroux established himself as a travel essayist with an unmistakable eye, ear and voice. His gift for drawing people ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Author Paul Theroux began globetrotting 50 years ago which led to the publication of his first travelogue "The Great Railway Bazaar" in 1975, considered by many as a classic in ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Paul Theroux said his literary goodbye to Africa at a train station in Luanda, Angola, five decades after he first visited the continent as a Peace Corps volunteer. In his new book, ...

Three decades ago, Paul Theroux boarded a train that would take him on a grand tour across Asia. In some ways, in those days before Blackberries, cell phones and computers, his journey was more ...

Paul Theroux burst upon the literary scene in 1975 with the publication of “The Great Railway Bazaar” that detailed his journey by rail from Victoria Station in London to what was then the British ...

Readers discuss a guest essay by Paul Theroux about his experiences as an American expat. Expatriation was nonetheless the making of me: liberated me, humbled me, revealed to me who I was and what I ...