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Shopping-Mall Time Machine

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…

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Out With a Bang

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

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Machine Yearning

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…

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A Prayer’s Chance

The scandal of mental health in West Africa

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Itchy Nose

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…

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City of Gilt

Searching for the town I used to love

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Christmas in Prison

Greeting the holidays in an age of mass incarceration

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Only a Game

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…

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Separated at Birth

An inquiry over time into the luckiest generation

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