On the Water
The people you meet on a cargo-passenger ship through the rainforest
Neither from Here Nor There
The stories of five US deportees now living in Mexico City.
Colombia
Exodus
The Venezuelan refugee crisis is now the largest migrant flow in Latin American history
The Dangers of Dissent
Speech may be free, but the punishment for it could be death
Colonialist Comrades
The struggle for post-colonial identity from West Africa to the Caucasus
Crossing Tehran
Sisters take a madcap journey through Tehran to watch the first football match open to women.
South Korea
The Woman’s House
The exhaustion, clutter and tedium of family life for South Korean mothers
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.