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Best of 2011: Books for, by and about expats

35 Comments Posted by on December 12, 2011

One of our Random Nomads in November, Aaron Ausland, had this to say about those of us who venture across borders: Travel to a new place for three weeks and you can write a book, travel for three months and you can write an article, travel for three years and you’ll likely have nothing to [...]

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Some enchanted headgear — a final glimpse of English summer

1 Comment Posted by on August 30, 2011

As August draws to a close, Sebastian Doggart offers this parting glance at the summer creations of an up-and-coming English millinery designer. One of the winners of The Displaced Nation’s Alice Awards for curious, unreal travel writing, Doggart has also contributed a travel yarn about his pilgrimage to GoldenEye in Jamaica, where Ian Fleming wrote [...]

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The Displaced Nation’s monthly themes — witty, wacky, wise, all or none of the above?

5 Comments Posted by on August 17, 2011

Before drawing up the charter, as it were, for The Displaced Nation in April, the site’s two Founding Mothers — Kate Allison and myself — and its one Founding Father, Anthony Windram, engaged in some vigorous debate over what the site’s “categories” should be. We had met through our blogs. What topics did we all [...]

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Two displaced royals, William & Kate, in la-la land

15 Comments Posted by on July 11, 2011

We welcome Emily Henry to The Displaced Nation as a guest blogger. In this post on the royal visit to California that just took place, Emily neatly combines two of our blog’s favorite topics: what Alice in Wonderland can teach us about the displaced life, and how to assess royalty from within a global framework. [...]

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Another Friday, another royal wedding of international fame

4 Comments Posted by on July 1, 2011

Who’s the happy Royal couple today? Ah yes. Kate Moss and Jamie Hince, in a three-day bling-fest entailing two top chefs, six marquees, and performances by Snoop Dogg and Kanye West. I bet the residents of  Little Faringdon are loving that one. There probably haven’t been as many twitching net curtains since Kate entertained a pipedream of [...]

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Mia Wasikowska — a Third Culture Kid who is no Cinderella

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 11, 2011

Neatly coinciding with The Displaced Nation’s recent themes of the Royal Wedding and Gothic Tales, Maureen Dowd in her New York Times article “Who Married Up: The Women or the Men?” compares Cinderella with Kate Middleton and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. While the comparison with Kate Middleton is oft-cited, Bronte’s tale is less obvious: the [...]

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In sum, here’s how three displaced people “saw” Britain’s pomp

2 Comments Posted by on May 2, 2011

Once upon a time there lived Three Stooges in a kingdom ruled by a queen, otherwise known as a queendom. But eventually, each of them moved away to a republic that had renounced that very same monarchy hundreds of years ago (but which still retained a certain fascination for their descendents). Now these Three Stooges [...]

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A toast to two displaced writers with passionate views of royal passion

29 Comments Posted by on April 30, 2011

Special notice: The writers we are celebrating in today’s post — best-selling novelist Jane Green and expat blogger Karen Van Drie — have kindly agreed to “come in” and respond to your comments and questions on the topic of the hour: yesterday’s royal wedding. Don’t be shy! A cheery hello to you all. We have [...]

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LIBBY’S LIFE #5: Decaffeinated sherry to toast a Royal Wedding

2 Comments Posted by on April 29, 2011

To mother-in-law’s to watch the Royal Wedding. Julia down the road organised a street party and I would have preferred to go to that, but Sandra (that’s Oliver’s mum) threw a sulk, so of course, that was our day off arranged for us. “You let her get away with too much,” I told Oliver on [...]

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Tiffin: A displaced word of many meanings, but this one is sweetest

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 28, 2011

Special announcement from TDN: ML Awanohara and Kate Allison will be live-tweeting the Royal Wedding from a displaced perspective. Join us from 5:00 a.m. EST, using the hash tag: #DNRW Read more. Tiffin – a word imported to England in the times of colonial British India, when, as well as being Queen of England, Victoria [...]

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