Why I Risked Prison to Keep the Uyghur Culture Alive
One man’s journey from China to the U.S. and back again
Thinking Big, Keeping Hold
Remembering two very different defenders of journalism
Before there were guidebooks, 18th- and 19th-century authors wrote “stranger’s guides” to cities and countries–pamphlets and books that combined helpful tips with particular and offbeat advice and context: the best boarding houses alongside bits of history, preferred brothels as well as facts about paleontology and poetry. They were personal, eccentric and intimate portrayals of place. Stranger’s Guide is a modern version of that idea.