Remembering Karim Ganem Maloof
SG Managing Editor Kyla Kupferstein Torres remembers her friend
On the Water
The people you meet on a cargo-passenger ship through the rainforest
South Korea
The Woman’s House
The exhaustion, clutter and tedium of family life for South Korean mothers
Crossing Tehran
Sisters take a madcap journey through Tehran to watch the first football match open to women.
Violation and Invasion in the Amazon
What happened when 20,000 illegal miners moved into the Yanomami Indigenous Territory?
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.