Getting Lost in a Virtual Tehran
"Those dots, for some time, were my little digital airports, my virtual landing strips."
Tehran
Reading for Tehran Streets
Photographer Maryam Firuzi on Imagination, Literature and Public Space
Keeping Up with the Fereshteh Crowd
It's nouveau riche versus old money in Tehran's toniest neighborhood
Portrait of a Pub
Progress and procrastination at Dublin's infamous Grogan’s Castle Lounge
Defending Life and Water
The struggle over clean drinking water taps into a conflict at the heart of life in Mexico City
Winner of 2021 National Magazine Awards for Photography and General Excellence in Literature, Science and Politics.
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.
