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In the Name of the Law

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Welcome to Close Up, our newsletter focused on photography. It’s part of our set of expanded offerings. At least once a month, you’ll receive an original photo essay from a different part of the world. Today’s Close Up newsletter highlights a photo essay from our brand-new print issue, Stranger’s Guide: The World at Work—our very first photography issue! You can purchase the print issue below.
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Project Fire

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Stranger’s Guide explores how politics, power and culture shape daily life across the globe. We believe that local writers, journalists and thinkers are best equipped to explain their political and cultural realities and we publish stories that ask us to listen to the complexities of the world. Weekly Long Read is for everyone but it’s made possible by our paid subscribers.
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It Stays in the Car

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In our most recent print issue, Stranger’s Guide: The World at Work, we invited 15 journalists from around the world to interview people about their daily labor and how work influences their dreams, their aspirations and their discontentment. The following is one of these interviews. To find more reflections on daily work from Vietnam to Iran to Ukraine, order our latest issue. Stranger’s Guide explores how politics, power and culture shape daily life across the globe.
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Vietnam United

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Stranger’s Guide explores how politics, power and culture shape daily life across the globe. We believe that local writers, journalists and thinkers are best equipped to explain their political and cultural realities and we publish stories that ask us to listen to the complexities of the world. Weekly Long Read is for everyone but it’s made possible by our paid subscribers.
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The Buses of Caracas

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Welcome to Close Up, our newsletter focused on photography. It’s part of our set of expanded offerings. At least once a month, you’ll receive an original photo essay from a different part of the world. Today’s Close Up newsletter highlights a photo essay from our brand-new print issue, Stranger’s Guide: The World at Work—our very first photography issue! You can purchase the print issue below. The transportation system in Caracas, Venezuela is as anachronistic as it is resilient.
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The Cost of Convenience

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Stranger’s Guide explores how politics, power and culture shape daily life across the globe. We believe that local writers, journalists and thinkers are best equipped to explain their political and cultural realities and we publish stories that ask us to listen to the complexities of the world. Weekly Long Read is for everyone but it’s made possible by our paid subscribers.
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A Normal Life

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June invites us to celebrate the stories, struggles and joys of queer communities around the world and the ongoing push for visibility and LGBTQ+ pride. In that spirit, we’re sharing Krys Lee’s fiction piece, “A Normal Life” from our South Korea guide in honor of Pride Month. Our SG Fiction newsletter features an original short story from a different author around the world. It’s part of our set of expanded offerings.
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Acid Church

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Stranger’s Guide explores how politics, power and culture shape daily life across the globe. We believe that local writers, journalists and thinkers are best equipped to explain their political and cultural realities and we publish stories that ask us to listen to the complexities of the world. Weekly Long Read is for everyone but it’s made possible by our paid subscribers.
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Game of Confidence

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Close Up The boxers of Lagos Welcome to Close Up, our newsletter focused on photography. It’s part of our set of expanded offerings. At least once a month, you’ll receive an original photo essay from a different part of the world. Today’s Close Up newsletter highlights a photo essay from our brand-new print issue, Stranger’s Guide: The World at Work—our very first photography issue! You can purchase the print issue below.
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A Field Guide to Work

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Field Guide Highlighting our new print issue and exploring the world at work Field Guide Vol. 274 There is struggle, but also dignity and humanity inherent to work. The labor we do in the world is central to how we understand who we are and our place in society; be it as a writer, a miner, an athlete, a dog walker or a politician. Work can offer a salve for our deeply human yearning for direction and purpose.
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