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  • The Passenger: India

    by The Passenger, Arundhati Roy, Prem Shankar Jha, Tishani Doshi ...
    Series series The Passenger
    A journey into today's India through essays, photography, and more, shortlisted for a 2022 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award.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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Passenger: Berlin

    by The Passenger, Cees Nooteboom, Peter Schneider, Annett Gröschner ...
    Series series The Passenger
    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Passenger: Brazil

    by The Passenger, Jon Lee Anderson, Alberto Riva, Eliane Brum ...
    Series series The Passenger
    An in-depth look at Brazilian culture in the series that collects the best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from around the world.In the second half of the twentieth century Brazil made extraordinary contributions to music, sport, architecture. From bossa nova to acrobatic soccer to the daring architecture of Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa, the country seemed to embody a new, original ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Passenger: Turkey

    by The Passenger, Elif Batuman, Burhan Sönmez, Elif Shafak ...
    Series series The Passenger
    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Passenger: Japan

    by The Passenger, Richard Lloyd Parry, Yoshimoto Banana, Ian Buruma ...
    Series series The Passenger
    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Passenger: Rome

    by The Passenger, Marco D'Eramo, Nicola Lagioia, Francesco Pacifico ...
    Series series The Passenger
    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Passenger: Greece

    by The Passenger, Petros Markaris, Matteo Nucci, Christos Ikonomou ...
    Series series The Passenger
    A vivid portrait of life in Greece, in the series that collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.Many have impressions and opinions about Greece based on superficial headlines or pop culture stereotypes. This volume of The Passenger offers instead a wide-ranging, thoughtful, and lively picture of the country in all its nuance and diversity—its people, its ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Passenger: Nigeria

    by The Passenger, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, A. Igoni Barrett, Noo Saro-Wiwa ...
    Series series The Passenger
    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 ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Passenger: Mediterranean

    by The Passenger, David Abulafia, Rachel Roddy, Nick Hunt ...
    Series series The Passenger
    Fully-illustrated, The Passenge r collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.IN THIS VOLUME: The Sea Between Lands by David Abulalfia; The Liquid Road by Leïla Slimani; The Cold One, the Hot One, the Mad One, and the Angry One by Nick Hunt • plus: the sounds and smells of the Mediterranean; the ceaseless hunt for tuna; the invention of the Mediterranean d. ... Read more

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  • The Passenger: Ireland

    by The Passenger, Catherine Dunne, Caelainn Hogan, Colum McCann, Mark O'Connell ...
    Series series The Passenger
    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 ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Passenger: Thailand

    by The Passenger, Philip Cornwel-Smith, Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Emma Larkin ...
    Series series The Passenger
    **Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. **IN THIS VOLUME: Buddhism, the State, and Superpowers by Pitchaya Sudbanthad • The Country of Spirits by Emma Larkin • Monarchy Under Attack by Claudio Sopranzetti • plus: soft power and the working class, the heart of rural Thailand and the separatism of the southern peninsula, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Passenger: Barcelona

    by The Passenger, Enrique Vila-Matas, Najat El Hachmi, Dan Hancox ...
    Series series The Passenger
    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 . ... Read more

    $12.99 USD