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1) Space
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Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME: Night, Sleep, Death and the Stars by Lauren Groff・The Universe Underground by Paolo Giordano・We All Hated Each Other So Much by Frank Westermann・plus: discovering new planets and destroying satellites, returning to the Moon (this time to stay), the Mars delusion, the hunt for extraterrestrial life, and much more...
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2) California
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The best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from and about California-in the "rich and engrossing" series for travelers and armchair travelers (Times Literary Supplement).
From the Gold Rush to Hollywood's golden age to the rise of Silicon Valley, California has long stood as the brightest symbol of the American dream. In recent years, however, the country's mainstream media has been declaring with increasing frequency-and thinly veiled...
3) Nigeria
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Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME:
Still Becoming by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Nation called Ineba by A. Igoni Barrett
The Niger Delta by Noo Saro-Wiwa
plus: independent cinema and the do-it-yourself society; indiscriminate abductions and discrimination against women; the discrete charm of repair shops and the irresistible fascination with Afrobeat,...
4) India
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Since its earliest interactions with the West, India has been the object of a gross misinterpretation, a vague association with ideas of peace, spiritualism, the magic of the fakirs. Constantly reframed and mythologized by Westerners fleeing their supposedly rationalist societies, India continues to fascinate with its millennia-old history, shrines on every street corner, ancient beliefs and rituals, and unique linguistic and cultural diversity.
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5) Ireland
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The best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from and about Ireland-in the series that's "like a literary vacation" (Publishers Weekly).
Ireland is a land full of charm and conflict, a country that in just a few decades has gone from being a poor, semi-theocratic society to a thriving economy free from the influence of the Catholic Church. With the 1998 peace agreements, the conflict between nationalists and unionists seemed, if not resolved,...
6) Rome
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The best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from and about Rome-in the series that's "like a literary vacation" (Publishers Weekly).
If you believe recent chatter about Rome-in the media and by its residents-the city is on the verge of collapse. Each year, it slips further down the ranking of the world's most livable cities. To the problems faced by all large capitals-hit-and-run tourism, traffic, the divide between elegant, Airbnb-dominated...
7) Berlin
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The best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from and about Berlin-in the series that's "like a literary vacation" (Publishers Weekly).
In 1990s Berlin, the scars of a century of war were still visible everywhere: coal stoves, crumbling buildings, desolate minimarts, not a working buzzer or elevator. To visit the city then was a hallucinatory experience, a simultaneous journey into the past and into the future.
The abandoned ruins, the...
8) Japan
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Explore Japanese society in the lively series that collects the best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from around the world.
Visitors from the West look with amazement, and sometimes concern, at Japan's social structures and unique, complex culture industry; the gigantic scale of its tech corporations and the resilience of its traditions; the extraordinary diversity of the subcultures that flourish in its "post-human" megacities. The...
9) Barcelona
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Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME:
Lovestruck in Barcelona by Enrique Vila-Matas
Supermanza 503 by Gabi Martinez
The Great Barcelona Novel by Miqui Otero
plus: the complex legacy of the Olympics; the future of Catalonia; the radical left and the once best in the world soccer team; an endless subway line, and much more...
Thirty years after the 1992...
10) Turkey
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Turkish culture and history is explored in the wide-ranging series that is "like a literary vacation" (Publishers Weekly).
The birth of the "New Turkey," as the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called his own creation, is an exemplary story of the rise of "illiberal democracies" through the erosion of civil liberties, press freedom, and the independence of the judicial system. Turkey was a complex country long before the rise of its new...
11) Paris
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The best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from and about Paris-in the "rich and engrossing" series for literary travelers (Times Literary Supplement).
Paris's postcard image has suffered multiple blows in recent years: the November 2015 terrorist attacks, the demonstrations of the yellow vests, the riots in the suburbs, Notre-Dame in flames, record heatwaves and the coronavirus. Meanwhile, soaring living costs are forcing many Parisians...
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