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¿Fresh and diverting, informative and topical without being slight or ephemeral. This supremely well-edited combination of current affairs, journalism, commentary, and fun facts is perfect for our pause-button moment.¿ ¿Australian Financial Review, Best Books of the Year?

Fully illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.

IN THIS VOLUME:Growing Uncertainty in California¿s Central Valley by Anna Wiener ¿ What Does

It Mean to Be a Solution? by Vanessa Hua ¿ Shadows in the Valley by Francisco Cant¿. Plus: direct democracy and unsustainable development, the rise of the Land Back movement, LA¿s cultural renaissance in the face of rampant gentrification, visions of the future, the death of the Californian Dream, the burning of Paradise and much more . . .

¿Wildfire season had already begun, and,