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Social life and customs

Cursed Fields

by Noah Sneider,

What the tundra has in store for Russia’s reindeer herders

A Port In a Storm

by Samanth Subramanian,

A community’s quest to save its harbor

Village People

by Terry Southern,

By Terry Southern (1924–95), from an unpublished manuscript written in 1952. It is included in Making It Hot for Them, a collection of his writings edited by Nile Southern that…

If These Walls Could Talk

by Lauren Markham,

The strange history of our futile border fortifications

Sons and Daughters

by Sarah A. Topol,

The village where girls turn into boys

The Weekly Package

by Kim Wall,

How Cubans deliver culture without internet

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…

Queer Theory

From a CIA memorandum entitled “Homosexual Investigations” that was written in 1980 for the purpose of investigating colleagues. The document was published in March by Muckrock.

Bee-Brained

by Vauhini Vara,

Inside the competitive Indian-American spelling community

The Lords of Lambeau

by Austin Smith,

On family, fate, and Packers football

The Lords of Lambeau

by Austin Smith,

On family, fate, and Packers football

Social life and customs

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Cursed Fields

A Port In a Storm

Village People

If These Walls Could Talk

Sons and Daughters

The Weekly Package

Shopping-Mall Time Machine

Queer Theory

Bee-Brained

The Lords of Lambeau

The Lords of Lambeau

January 2017

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