Rereading Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” nearly 70 years after publication reveals a different book than the one younger readers embraced — less a manifesto of freedom than a meditation on restlessness, ...
The 1995 original hardback and 1996 paperback editions of The Road Ahead, by Bill Gates, Peter Rinearson, and Nathan Myhrvold. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Editor’s Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a ...
Time is a key element in Jack Kerouac’s novel “On the Road.” “We know time,” the protagonist Dean Moriarty (based on Kerouac’s friend Neal Cassady) mutters throughout the book, an invocation and a ...
John Steinbeck’s “Travels With Charley,” Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” William Least Heat-Moon’s “Blue Highways”: the American literary canon is full of works celebrating the road trip, one of life’s ...