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Social aspects

Bringing in the Beans

by Ted Genoways,

Harvest on an American family farm

Sons and Daughters

by Sarah A. Topol,

The village where girls turn into boys

Shopping-Mall Time Machine

by Walter Kirn,

I started hearing it about two years ago, and then I seemed to hear it constantly: people in their late teens and early twenties complaining, quite sincerely, that they felt…

Out With a Bang

From the website of Holy Smoke, a memorial-services company based in Alabama.

Machine Yearning

by Oliver Bendel,

From questions raised by Oliver Bendel, a machine ethicist, in a paper that was published this month on Springer. Bendel presented the paper last year at the Love and Sex…

A Prayer’s Chance

by Brian Goldstone,

The scandal of mental health in West Africa

Itchy Nose

by Kazuto Tatsuta,

When a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011, Tokyo artist Kazuto Tatsuta (a pen name taken from the Tatsuta train station in Fukushima) wanted to help…

City of Gilt

by Tanya Gold,

Searching for the town I used to love

Christmas in Prison

by Kenneth E. Hartman,

Greeting the holidays in an age of mass incarceration

Only a Game

by Karl Ove Knausgaard,

From a letter written by Karl Ove Knausgaard to Fredrik Ekelund, a novelist, in 2014. The letter was included in Home and Away, a collection of their letters about the…

Separated at Birth

by Daniel Asa Rose,

An inquiry over time into the luckiest generation