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Four new and revelatory essays by the author of “My Brilliant Friend” and “The Lost Daughter”.
In 2020, Claire Luchette in “O, The Oprah Magazine” described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as "an oracle among authors." Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and her formation as both a reader and a writer, she describes...
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Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME: Caste: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow by Arundhati Roy. The Invention of Hindu Nationalism by Prem Shankar Jha. No Country for Women by Tishani Doshi, plus: the grand ambitions of the world's most underrated space program, Bollywood's obsession with Swiss landscapes, an ode to Bengali food, eagerly awaiting the monsoon,...
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Fully-illustrated, The Passenger 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 diet; and much more…
The word "Mediterranean"...
4) 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,...
5) 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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The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME:
- Rome doesn't judge you by Nicola Lagioia
- The soul of the city by Matteo Nucci
- 39 memos for a book about Rome by Francesco Piccolo
- Plus: a guide to the sounds of Rome by Letizia Muratori, the feigned unrest and real malaise of the suburbs, the influence of the Vatican, the excessive power of real estate speculators and the rule...
7) 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...
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Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME: Underground Tenochtitlan by Guadalupe Nettel • Crime and (No) Punishment by Juan Villoro • The Birth of Fridolatry by Valeria Luiselli • plus: the cocaine that washes in from the sea and the pearl of the west, the jungle train and the last stop on the line, femicide and TikTok politics, mole, rice, the Virgin...
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