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Henry Wismayer

Princess Diana Was Not Your Mother

The outpouring of grief over Diana’s death 25 years ago was the curtain-raiser for our age of hysteria.

Aug 31, 2022

Princess Diana Was Not Your Mother

Aug 31, 2022

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Curious

The Bacillus, and the Art of Boredom

An illness in a Himalayan retreat was a proving-ground for parsing the frustrations of inertia from its small solaces

Dec 15, 2020

The Bacillus, and the Art of Boredom

Dec 15, 2020

Imagining A Life Less Mobile

Try not to mourn the holidays you won’t be taking this summer. We all need to get used to travelling less anyway.

Jul 27, 2020

Imagining A Life Less Mobile

Jul 27, 2020

Tripping The Light Fantastic

A cynic seeks to rediscover the art of wonder in the West Mongolian mountains.

May 25, 2020

Tripping The Light Fantastic

May 25, 2020

An Ode to Mountains

Some of us just can’t help seeing a peak without wondering what might be visible from its summit, and we’re not sure why.

Feb 21, 2020

An Ode to Mountains

Feb 21, 2020

A fork in the road.

A storm on the horizon.

Dec 2, 2019

A fork in the road.

Dec 2, 2019

Revenge of the Toffs

Britain’s class system is back. Did it ever go away?

Nov 17, 2019

Revenge of the Toffs

Nov 17, 2019

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The Writing Cooperative

What Editors Really Mean

That pitch you just sent? It’s probably rubbish.

Jul 8, 2019

What Editors Really Mean

Jul 8, 2019

Into The Caucasus, And Back In Time

A trek along Georgia’s Svaneti Trail offers a time-warp world of medieval villages and jaw-dropping scenery.

May 31, 2019

Into The Caucasus, And Back In Time

May 31, 2019

ticktock

Last night, after watching ‘Climate Change: The Facts’, the BBC’s terrifying synopsis of what we have done to the planet, and where it is…

Apr 21, 2019

Apr 21, 2019

Henry Wismayer

Henry Wismayer

Essays, features and assorted ramblings for over 80 publications, inc. NYT Magazine, WaPo, NYT, The Atlantic, WSJ, Nat Geo, and TIME: www.henry-wismayer.com.

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