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Scar is a powerful meditation on death, love, loss, identity, family and the terrifying ecstasy of madness.

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Jan 16, 2022

My Best Articles of 2021

A completely subjective, biased, opinionated list

My Best Articles of 2021

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Jan 4, 2021

My Best Articles of 2020

Stories from a static year

My Best Articles of 2020

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How One Travel Writing Gig Showed Me the Hidden Soul of Barcelona

I never got the hype. I do now.

An ornate Gothic pedestrian bridge between two buildings in Barcelona.

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Jun 18

Not Learning Italian Was My Most Beautiful Disaster

There’s magic in living where you don’t belong

A sunset behind mount Vesuvius, looking over an Italian town with the silhouette of an apartment building in the foreground.

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May 20

France’s Village of Books Is a Magic Trick

Keeping the flame alive has never been easy

A stone village in france with a church tower. It sits on a hill overlooking a green valley.

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Mar 22

Friends, Romans, Countrymen: Watching England Play in the Eternal City

Sometimes the losses are more memorable

Friends, Romans, Countrymen: Watching England Play in the Eternal City

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The Narrative Arc

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Feb 24

You May As Well Love, Because Nothing Else Is Free

The lies we tell to make life mean something

A subway station with a lattice roof showing a grey sky. A red train is pulling out of the station.

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Feb 23

Seeing the Northern Lights in Canada Was a Peak Experience

There really is something big out there

The Northern Lights glowing green above dark fir trees, with stars showing above a frozen lake.

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Counter Arts

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Feb 18

Technology, Friction, and the Reimagining of the World

I miss the witches

An abandoned house with dark windows and overgrown grass rising up the walls.

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Feb 12

Spain’s Portbou and the Melancholy of Lives Less Lucky Than Ours

A pretty place to visit can be a bad place to die.

Spain’s Portbou and the Melancholy of Lives Less Lucky Than Ours

Ryan Frawley

Ryan Frawley

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Novelist. Essayist. Former entomologist. Now a full-time writer exploring travel, art, philosophy, psychology, and science. www.ryanfrawley.com

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