Paul Theroux

Books by Paul Theroux

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar

by Paul Theroux
- Hardcover, 496 pages
100 Journeys for the Spirit

by Michael Ondaatje, Joseph Marshall III et al.
- Hardcover, 240 pages
Dark Star Safari

Overland from Cairo to Capetown

by Paul Theroux
- Paperback, 485 pages
The Lower River

by Paul Theroux
- Paperback, 336 pages
The Elephanta Suite

by Paul Theroux
- Hardcover, 274 pages
The Tao of Travel

Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

by Paul Theroux
- Paperback, 285 pages

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May 6-12: An Apocalypse, A Trip To Malawi And Anne Boleyn

May 06, 201311:19 AM

In softcover fiction, Hilary Mantel imagines Anne Boleyn's downfall, Martin Amis satirizes England, Paul Theroux sends a narrator back to the village he volunteered in, and Peter Heller depicts a post-apocalyptic life. In nonfiction, Robert Caro continues his LBJ biography.

Book Reviews

Review: 'The Lower River'

June 08, 2012 3:00 PM

Alan Cheuse reviews the new novel, The Lower River by Paul Theroux. Cheuse teaches writing at George Mason University.

Author Interviews

An Author's Journey Back To 'The Lower River'

May 20, 2012 8:00 AM

Travel writer Paul Theroux's latest novel, The Lower River, is about a former Peace Corps volunteer who returns to Malawi years later and finds the village he left much changed. Host Rachel Martin talks with author.

Author Interviews

Five Tips For Making Travel Meaningful

June 15, 2011 1:00 PM

Few know more about the art of travel than acclaimed writers Paul Theroux and Pico Iyer, who have a combined six decades of experience chronicling their adventures around the world. Theroux and Iyer share their tips for being a traveler rather than a tourist.

Clouds move over the Potala Palace in Tibet's Lhasa prefecture.

Tina Brown's Must-Reads

Tina Brown's Must-Reads: Exploring The Arab Spring

June 08, 201112:01 AM

Daily Beast and Newsweek editor Tina Brown highlights a novel and a pair of articles about travel to and from places we've recently come to identify with the "Arab spring" — getting in and getting out of countries where daily life can be a struggle.

The city of Tangier, the setting for Tahar Ben Jelloun's 2006 novel, Leaving Tangier.

Books

Book Your Trip: Nancy Pearl Picks Tales For Travel

by Nancy Pearl

October 07, 201012:01 AM

All aboard, armchair travelers! In Book Lust to Go, our go-to librarian shares her favorite accounts of intrepid exploration and fiction from faraway lands.

Movie star Dorothy Sebastian circa 1929.

Book Tour

'Ghost Train' Retraces Theroux's Past Journeys

by Neda Ulaby

November 04, 200812:12 PM

More than 30 years after documenting a trip through Europe, the Middle East and Asia in The Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux re-creates the voyage in Ghost Train to the Eastern Star.

Books

'The Great Railway Bazaar' Revisited

August 18, 200810:00 AM

After 30 years, thousands of miles, and dozens of books, Paul Theroux knows how to travel: By train. Decades after his classic, The Great Railway Bazaar, he takes that long, strange trip, again.

Book Reviews

Three India Stories Comprise 'Elephanta Suite'

by Alan Cheuse

October 09, 2007 4:00 PM

During the past four decades, Paul Theroux has produced more than two dozen works of fiction and half as many widely read travel books. His latest work of fiction, The Elephanta Suite, is composed of three novellas set in modern India.

Author Interviews

Fictional 'Mothers' Reveal Facts Of A Painful Adoption Process

Books

Book News: Newly Found Pearl Buck Novel To Be Published This Fall

At her desk in the study of her Philadelphia townhouse in 1967, Pearl Buck looks at a bound volume of the magazine Asia from 1925 that contained her first published work.

Book Reviews

A Different Kind Of Immigrant Experience In 'Americanah'

Books

Book News: Stephen King's New Bogeyman? Digital Publishing

Stephen King holds a special pink Kindle given to him at a 2009 unveiling event for the Amazon Kindle 2.

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Paul Theroux

Books by Paul Theroux

On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar

Overland from Cairo to Capetown

Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

Paul Theroux has written books about:

NPR stories about Paul Theroux

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