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Social life and customs

The End of Retirement

by Jessica Bruder,

When you can’t afford to stop working

Good Pilgrims

by Sarah Menkedick,

Why Mexican immigrants are moving back home

Library of Dribble

by Jorge Luis Borges, Osvaldo Ferrari,Translated by Jason Wilson,

From Conversations, a collection of dialogues conducted in 1984 and 1985 between Jorge Luis Borges and the Argentine poet Osvaldo Ferrari, out next month from Seagull Books. Translated from the…

21st Century Limited

by Kevin Baker,

The lost glory of America’s railroads

Islands

by Hilton Als,

By Hilton Als, written on the occasion of Peter Doig’s exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts this spring and published in Transition 113. Als’s “I Am Your Conscious,…

Story A

by Gideon Lewis-Kraus,

Story B

You Had to Be There

by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc,

On the road with Doug Stanhope

Backsides and Apologies

Blue Sky Days

by Tomas van Houtryve,

Two years ago, in February 2012, President Barack Obama signed into law the FAA Modernization and Reform Act, which called on the Federal Aviation Administration to “provide for the safe…

Road to Wigan Ear

From a November 25, 1848, article published in the Norfolk News, Eastern Counties Journal and Norwich, Yarmouth, and Lynn Commercial Gazette and included in Purring: Sport of the People, an…

The Terrace

by Gary Indiana,

By Gary Indiana, from A Significant Loss of Human Life, one of twenty-two pamphlets published by Semiotext(e) for this year’s Whitney Biennial, which is currently on view at the Whitney…