Stranger Sounds: Tehran
A Spotify playlist featuring songs from the Golden Age of Persian Popular Music
Sightseer: Before the Selfie
As with all pilgrimages, they have made the journey, they have arrived and they are now experiencing the quickening sense of recognition and affirmation
Colombia
Exodus
The Venezuelan refugee crisis is now the largest migrant flow in Latin American history
Neither from Here Nor There
The stories of five US deportees now living in Mexico City.
The Pulque Chronicles
Mexico’s pre-Hispanic alcoholic drink finds new life in the city’s old school bars.
Desert Pilgrims
The wild characters drawn to Joshua Tree and Death Valley
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.