Caribbean
Hispaniola
The tense border of the Dominican Republic and Haiti
High in the steep, green mountains of central Hispaniola, near the long and porous border that ...
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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—a company dedicated to revealing the intricacies of places across the globe, through both local and foreign eyes.
Moscow
Russia’s Hip-Hop Underground
How an uncensored strain of rap is mounting a fight for free expression
Last summer at Moscow’s Flacon, a former Soviet crystal factory converted into a hub of hipster ...
Bogotá
My Sensational Drama Queen
An ode to Bogotá
We are publishing this essay on contemporary Bogotá alongside a mid-century portrait of the city written by ...
Lagos
Nollywood: The film industry where women call the shots
"Access allows you to have a voice on-screen. Access allows you to put more women in the room.”
A few years ago, Isioma Osaje was studying medicine at Igbinedion University in Benin City, Nigeria. ...
Mexico City
The Pulque Chronicles
Mexico’s pre-Hispanic alcoholic drink finds new life in the city’s old school bars.
Ten years ago I lived in an apartment building in downtown Mexico City. One afternoon a ...
Caribbean
My Father’s Land
The indelible marks of slavery in Jamaica
Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs? Where is your tribal memory? Sirs, in that grey ...
Moscow
Under God
As Moscow transforms, one corner of the city remains sacred
Translated by Sarah Jane There are places in Moscow that are directly under God’s protection, places ...
California
Desert Pilgrims
The wild characters drawn to Joshua Tree and Death Valley
On a late spring evening, I am walking through Joshua Tree National Park with Ken Layne, ...
Texas
Legal Lynching
On death row in Texas
In 2016, a police officer was shot to death in San Antonio. A man was arrested, ...
Ireland
So Long Out of Ireland
Teaching storytelling as a national tradition
I have been out of Ireland for many years, but in fact, I have never left. ...
Lagos
The Kuti Legacy
Femi Kuti on politics, family and the future of Nigerian music
A uniquely congenial atmosphere welcomes visitors to The New Afrika Shrine in the Ikeja area of ...
United States
The Forgotten Evictions in the Name of National Parks
The fight to remember the poor communities destroyed in order to expand the US park system
The most popular way to get to the Chalmette Battlefield is the booze cruise. Twice a ...
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United Kingdom
Quarantine at Malta
“It has been my misfortune to be attacked with small-pox while en route for India. This circumstance will necessitate a twenty-one days’ quarantine at Malta, at the expiration of which time I shall continue my journey by the first ship I can get.” It’s a salary claim, signed by J. Broughton, Esq, chemist to the Indian Chinchona Plantation, and addressed to the Revenue Department at Fort Saint George, the first English fortress in the country, founded in 1644. The letter is dated 4th January, 1867. Broughton had submitted a claim for arrears of pay on the grounds he was delayed in taking up his duties as chemist because he contracted smallpox and was in quarantine.
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