Stranger's Guide

Check out this week's Long Read, "Egyptian Antiquities" by Sarah El-Shaarawi from our Mediterranean guide here on our Substack: open.substack.com/pub/strangersg…

Check out the essay we highlighted in our recent Weekly Long Read newsletter, “Prison Limits” by Michela Bowman from our Scandinavia guide here on our Substack: strangersguide.substack.com/p/prison-limits

Head to our Substack to read our recent Weekly Long Read, "Legal Lynching" by Maurice Chammah with photography from Bruce Jackson from our Texas guide. Check it out here: open.substack.com/pub/strangersg…

"..., one giving it the name Naija, and another developed recently by BBC Pidgin, to help formalize its broadcasts and web articles." Read more from Eghosa Imasuen's essay here on our Substack: strangersguide.substack.com/p/no-drink-pan…

"Pidgin English and art have always been intricately linked in Nigeria. Frowned upon in schools as a broken language, it may be the most widely spoken language not yet with a formal orthography, although several have been developed..."

Check out this week's Long Read, "A Long Dead End" by Sinar Alvarado from our Amazon guide on our Substack here: open.substack.com/pub/strangersg…

Check out this week's Vignette here on our Substack: strangersguide.substack.com/p/ghost-city

Read more from “Of Time and Water” by Andri Snær Magnason from our Scandinavia guide in this week’s Long Read here on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/strangersg…

"Glaciers will certainly be found in the Arctic, Greenland and Antarctica for a few thousand more years, but probably not in the Alps and the Andes; they will disappear in most parts of the Himalayas and Iceland."

“In the future, glaciers will be an alien phenomenon, rare as a Bengal tiger. Having lived in the time of the white giants will become swaddled in a fairytale glow, like having stroked a dragon or handled the eggs of the great auk."

From adult films to OnlyFans, sex work is prolific around the world. This week's Field Guide looks at the power and struggles of sex workers from Vietnam to Iran to the Netherlands. Check it out on our Substack here: open.substack.com/pub/strangersg…

Head to our Substack to read this week's Long Read, "Day of Rest" by Amy Yedida Wolfe from our US National Parks guide here: open.substack.com/pub/strangersg…

Check out Maxine Gordon and Ethelene Whitmire's reflections on the Black American Jazz musicians who made Copenhagen their home in the 1960s and 1970s in this week's Vignette here on Substack: strangersguide.substack.com/p/finding-a-ho…

Check out this week's Fiction newsletter on our Substack here: open.substack.com/pub/strangersg…

Check out this week's Long Read, "Prisoners of War" by Nataliya Gumenyuk from our Ukraine guide here: strangersguide.substack.com/p/prisoners-of…

Read more from Musa Okwonga’s powerful eulogy, "Mandela Will Never, Ever Be Your Minstrel" for the South African leader from our Johannesburg guide in our recent Vignette newsletter here on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/strangersg…

“Dear revisionists, Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel. Over the next few days you will try so, so hard to make him something he was not, and you will fail. You will try to smooth him, to sandblast him, to take away his Malcolm X. You will try to hide his anger from view.”

Check out Eimar Ryan's essay, "Good Sports" from our Ireland guide in this week's Long Read here on our Substack: open.substack.com/pub/strangersg…

Check it out here on our Substack: strangersguide.substack.com/p/school-days?…

School is back in session! ⁠ Since summer break has come to a close and students around the world transition back to the classroom, we’re revisiting Melissa Ann Pinney’s photo essay, “School Days” from our Chicago guide in our recent Close Up newsletter.