Et Tu, New York Times?

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  12.06.04 | 5:45 PM ET

The Gray Lady debuted the redesign of its travel section Sunday—without the personal essay column. We hope this is an anomaly and it will be back next week. If it’s gone for good, how sad. The Times has been the only major U.S. newspaper we know of that consistently gives travel writers a forum to look inward. It recognizes that travel sometimes involves a personal journey as well as a physical one. If the Times has done away with the essay, the philosophical dialogue among travelers will continue here and in other places, of course, but millions of newspaper readers in the U.S. will no longer be able to participate, and that’s a shame. The timing of the essay elimination is a bit ironic, considering that Sunday’s New York Times Book Review heralds the latest crop of narrative travel books. The headline? Choice of Literary Travel Guides Is Expanding.



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