Subculture – Strangers Guide

Cuba

At the Edge of the Sea

The Malecón in Havana, Cuba

by Carlos Manuel Álvarez

Translated by Alice Whitmore At ten to twelve one night, the Italian, scratching his ankle, says,...

North Korea

In 2015, NK News, a Seoul-based website providing news about North Korea, carried a story on what residents of the isolated nation do for...

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Russia

Russia’s Hip-Hop Underground

How an uncensored strain of rap is mounting a fight for free expression

by Michael Idov
Photography by Maria Ionova-Gribina

Last summer at Moscow’s Flacon, a former Soviet crystal factory converted into a hub of hipster...

Lebanon

“Dictaphone Group is a research and performance collective that creates live art performances based on a...”

Readings

Republic of the Congo

According to the website Hip Africa, Les Sapeurs first emerged in 1922 after a Congolese man named Andre Matsoua returned home after a visit...

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Japan

“Otaku are those Japanese, usually males and generally between the ages of 18 and 40, who fanatically consume, produce and collect comic books (manga),...

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Mexico City

The Chilangoth

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