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Social conditions

Trick of the Russian Soul

From Secondhand Time, an oral history of post-Soviet Russia compiled by Svetlana Alexievich and published last month by Random House. Alexievich is the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in…

From a conversation between Chen Zhiyan, a Chinese journalist, and three chatbots: Chicken Little, Little Ice, and Little Knoll. The interview was conducted on WeChat, a social-networking platform. It was…

The Long Rescue

by Sonia Faleiro,

A man’s search for his kidnapped children

Con Voyage

by Wolfgang Bauer, Sarah Pybus,

From Crossing the Sea, by Wolfgang Bauer. In 2014, Bauer, a German journalist for Die Zeit, traveled undercover with Syrian refugees on a boat headed from Egypt to Greece. His…

Wilt Thou not Walk

by Dorothy Thompson,

I never knew just when I passed the border into Germany because no frontier official stopped me. I thought it odd that there should be a border warfare so recently…

Front Runner

by Elisabeth Zerofsky,

Marine Le Pen’s campaign to make France great again

In Hayange

by Valérie Igounet, Vincent Jarousseau,

In March 2014, Marine Le Pen’s National Front took charge of eleven municipalities, among them Hayange, a city of 16,000 in northeastern France, where the unemployment rate rose to 15…

Certain Age

by Ottessa Moshfegh, Kristine McKenna,

Dialogue

Introduction

Last fall, young people gathered in protest at dozens of universities across the country. Students of color spoke about feeling unwelcome or invisible, of being stereotyped, slighted, excluded, harassed. One…

Weary Oracle

by Dawn Lundy Martin,

By Dawn Lundy Martin. Martin is the author of four books of poetry, including Good Stock, which will be published by Coffee House Press in 2016. She teaches at the…

Blanket Security

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

By Thomas Chatterton Williams. Williams is the author of the memoir Losing My Cool, published by Penguin Press in 2010.

Social conditions

Trick of the Russian Soul

Deep Blues

The Long Rescue

Con Voyage

Wilt Thou not Walk

Front Runner

In Hayange

Certain Age

Introduction

Weary Oracle

Blanket Security

Debug

Social conditions

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Trick of the Russian Soul

Deep Blues

The Long Rescue

Con Voyage

Wilt Thou not Walk

Front Runner

In Hayange

Certain Age

Introduction

Weary Oracle

Blanket Security

March 2016

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