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As US-Iran relations continue to make headlines, Stranger’s Guide: Tehran brings readers to the streets of a city few outsiders have had the opportunity to explore. Through new works from Dina Nayeri, Jason Rezaian, and a number of up-and-coming authors, the issue explores the public and private lives of residents of the Iranian capital. Go to a night of avant-garde theater where political discourse comes cloaked in artistic metaphor; journey with two sisters as they traverse the city to attend a soccer match for the first time; discover the generation gap between old revolutionaries and young students pushing for a new future. It’s a deep and nuanced look at this complex city.

Reading for Tehran Streets

photography by Maryam Firuzi

Considering imagination, literature and public space

The Street: Bogotá, 1960

Gabriel García Márquez, translated by José Vargas

Never-before-translated vignettes on city-life by a young Gabriel García Márquez

My Sensational Drama Queen

Juli Delgado Lopera

An ode to Bogotá

We asked six influential Texans: What’s next for Texas?

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Dan Rather, Earl Campbell, Adrian Quesada, Lina Hidalgo, Cruz Ortiz and C.K. Chin on the future of the lone star state

So Long Out of Ireland

Colum McCann

Storytelling as a national tradition

Feuding Fathers

Jonathan Ali

The legacies of Derek Walcott and V. S. Naipaul

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Belonging to the Mountains

Dead and Kicking

Olga Voronina

Writer's haunts—and haunting writers—in Moscow

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Journey to Dragon’s Bridge

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Moscow Refreshments

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Banned Bard

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