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1843 Magazine

February/March 2018

Cover Photograph TREVOR PAGLEN STUDIO
Features
Signs and wonders
The world’s only living natural experiment in the creation of language has happened among the deaf in Nicaragua. As Dan Rosenheck discovered, it has fundamentally changed how linguists think about one of civilisation’s greatest mysteries
Crafting a life
White-collar workers are fleeing their desks to become brewers, bakers and pickle-makers. Ryan Avent reckons the artisanal boom points to the modern economy’s failings, and maybe its future as well
How does it really feel to be lonely?
Maggie Fergusson seeks out those beside themselves at being by themselves
Imagining a new China
Many Chinese parents are frustrated by the country’s rote-based curriculum. As Fiammetta Rocco discovered, the demand for creative education is transforming Beijing’s top contemporary art venue
Mother of invention
Her children have made waves with fast cars and slow food. Maye Musk tells Natasha Loder how she produced a family of entrepreneurs
Dispatches
Dispatches Out and proud
Dispatches The art of joylessness
Culture
Robots Trevor Paglen and the art of AI
Exhibitions Charles I’s collection reassembled
What to listen to Ezra Furman: An angelic voice in America
What the world is listening to Maori heavy metal
What to watch A bloody thriller in fin-de-siècle New York
What the world is watching Beijing’s got talent
What to read A mermaid washes up in Georgian London
What the world is reading A magazine for lovers of pot plants
Design
Architecture Moscow’s modernism spruced up
Material values Cork, the new pin-up
Interiors Pendant lamps to light up your life
House Style A minimalist home in a Flemish abbey
I wish I’d done that Piero Lissoni on Le Corbusier’s LC2 chair
Style
Shopping How Depop transformed the second-hand-clothes business
Luke Leitch Why Albert Einstein is my fashion role model
Accessories Bags and shoes that put a spring in your step
Menswear Spring clothes in earthy shades
Technology
Health Which air purifier should you buy?
Rewind The saga of the first trans-atlantic cable
Test drive Electric shock therapy gets personal
A gadget, a game and an app A gadget to stop cyclists getting lost
Food + Drink
Ethics Should you eat horse?
Capital of food Where to eat in Oaxaca
My perfect day Dominique Ansel has an offally good time
World in a dish The hummus wars
Drinks cabinet Ice wine cometh
Travel
India Trekking through Ladakh, land of the gods
Escape from... Where to explore near Johannesburg
Vaut le voyage Happy 40th birthday to Sydney’s Mardi Gras
Beat the crowds Experience ancient China in Pingyao
Data Graphic
What the numbers say Infidelity around the world
Reluctant Global Citizen
Reluctant Global Citizen Adrian Wooldridge gets an earful