Includes bibliographical references.

Rick Steves wants to set you free / Sam Anderson -- On the road with Thomas Merton / Fred Bahnson -- If you are permanently lost / Molly McCully Brown -- Life, death, and the border patrol / Jackie Bryant Smith -- Volunteer's dilemma / Ken Budd -- My own private Iceland / Kyle Chayka -- Revisiting my grandfather's garden / Mojgan Ghazirad -- To the follower of Cheikh Bamba whom I met in Dakar / Emmanuel Iduma -- How to mourn a glacier / Lacy M. Johnson -- Such perfection / Chloé Cooper Jones -- What I learned in avalanche school / Heidi Julavits -- Glow / James Lasdun -- To hold oneself together / Yiyun Li -- The last of the great American hobos / Jeff MacGregor -- The trillion-dollar nowhere / Ben Mauk -- My father's land / Courtney Desiree Morris -- At the border, no one can know your name / Alejandra Oliva -- The shape of water / Stephanie Pearson -- Who lives in Palermo is Palermo / Ashley Powers -- Climate Signs / Emily Raboteau -- Walking with migrants / Paul Salopek -- Lost in Summerland / Barrett Swanson -- Vacation memories marred by the indelible stain of racism / Shanna B. Tiayon.