The Orient Express has always been a stage for stories. Agatha Christie made it famous through mystery; now, nearly a century later, another slim volume is shaping its mythology—Quietude: The Wisdom of Rumi, a novella so slight it can be finished between one station and the next, yet so resonant it lingers long after the last page. On a late spring evening, as the train hums eastward from Paris, the dining and club cars gleam with polished wood and golden lamps. Roses bloom in crystal vases. A pianist unfurls the first delicate measures of a Ravel nocturne. It is here […]

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