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Social life and customs

A Brief Period of Rejoicing

by Geoff Dyer,

Never mind the European meltdown, here’s the Olympics!

The Address Book

by Sophie Calle,

In June 1983, Calle found an address book on the street in Paris and photocopied the contents before returning it to its owner, Pierre D. She then began to contact…

The Scientists

by Marco Roth,

From a memoir published in September by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Roth is an editor at n+1. Secrecy came easily, at first. It felt like the natural condition of adolescence,…

Emotion detectors

Translated by S.T. McNeil,

Electric ladyland

by Craig Taylor,

Not with a bang

Translated by Xiyun Yang,

Her heart inform her tongue

by Alexandra Fuller,

Language lost and found

Double zoo

by Roland Barthes,Translated by Andrew Brown,

From Eden to Eton

by Pico Iyer,

One boy’s transatlantic education

Movies saved my life

by Tom Engelhardt,

A young New Yorker meets foreigners in film

Family Ties

From character descriptions for the Afghan television show The Ministry, written by the show’s producers, Kaboora Productions. The show, which aired on Afghanistan’s Tolo TV in August, is shot in…