Essays

Or more accurately, “essays etc.” Here you will find a selection of essays, reviews, features, feuilletons and the occasional experimental piece. You can also find archives for specific publications herehere and here.

Going Nowhere

Lost Cosmonaut, a darkly humorous, haphazard tour around Russia’s dreariest republics has turned out to be a surprise hit for its author, Daniel Kalder. On a stop off in Lond

One small Steppe

Daniel Kalder is a shadowy figure, pale and slight. He warns me that he will be wearing black, that he has a beard and a long ponytail. I spot him instantly in the Edinburgh cafe w

Interview

What is the most quintessential anti-tourism site—the place it would be hardest for a travel agent to write an appealing blurb for? I think the planet Pluto is a pretty rotten pl

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