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Stanley Tucci, ‘Men in Kilts,’ and How We’ll Travel Post-pandemic
Pity the travel influencer (or don’t; it’s easy not to). Before COVID-19, the art of stoking wanderlust was defined by selling a fantasy—the promise not only of a perfect vacation, but of a self somehow fortified and made special by going to the same bleached beaches and blue-domed Greek villages as everyone else. But now, almost a year into a pandemic that’s grounded people like never before, professional nomads find themselves being excoriated for the very same thing they built their reputations on: escaping reality for far-flung places most others can’t reach. There’s something distinctly loaded, now, about watching someone roam around, with all the attendant pleasures and pit stops…