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  • THE PASSENGER: CALIFORNIA
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    THE PASSENGER: 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 mainstre...

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  • THE PASSENGER: IRELAND
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    THE PASSENGER: 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 agreemen...

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  • THE PASSENGER: ROME
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    THE PASSENGER: 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 capital...

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  • THE PASSENGER: PARIS
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    THE PASSENGER: 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 th...

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  • THE PASSENGER: BERLIN
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    THE PASSENGER: 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 simultaneou...

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  • THE PASSENGER: INDIA
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    THE PASSENGER: INDIA
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    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 sup...

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  • THE PASSENGER: TURKEY
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    THE PASSENGER: 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 judi...

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  • THE PASSENGER: JAPAN
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    THE PASSENGER: 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...

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  • THE PASSENGER: GREECE
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    THE PASSENGER: GREECE
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    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 diver...

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  • THE PASSENGER: BRAZIL
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    THE PASSENGER: BRAZIL
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    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 em...

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