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1843 Magazine

April/May 2020

Cover Photograph /ILLUSTRATION: NOMA BAR
Features
Between the spreadsheets
The management consultant’s guide to love and sex, by Alice Hines
The friendly Mr Wu
The weakest link in America’s national security may not be foreign technology but its own people. Mara Hvistendahl traces the story of the single mother who sold out to China
The rise of PTSD
It has never been easier to talk about trauma. But does society’s openness have costs as well as benefits? Jesse Singal explores the best way to deal with distress
Inside the box
Fiammetta Rocco meets the Norwegian social worker whose rage at racism turned her into an Instagram artist
Upfront
The 1843 interview Reading “Paradise Lost” with Armando Iannucci
All the rage The eight-year-old rapper making a mark in Uganda
Cheat’s guide When #MeToo meets Baroque painting
Postcard from Silicon Valley Some of our critics call us the hot-tub monks
Brave new word Fighting the scourge of “Scum Welsh”
Design
My life in six objects Yiyun Li: “I read “War and Peace” every year. Each time I see new things”
Brand illusions The secret to a perfect brand name
Stranger things Each coin carries the weight of hundreds of hands
Beyond human Soon we might all see with sound
Rewind The emoji is the modern hieroglyph
Style
Dress code I’ve filled my life with Swedish armchairs and $50 T-shirts
The science of fashion How trainers got their bounce
The Line of Beauty Why we all submit to leather
Fashion victim My watch stopped working two days after I left my wife
Food
Russia Moscow melt
The ingredient Plantain, the “macho banana”
World in a dish Swedish meatballs
Journeys
Cuba Salsa in the synagogue
The bluff guide How to talk about Oman when you’ve never been
And finally...
How we live now Disposing of offensive heirlooms isn’t easy
#FirstWorldProblems Do you know a good... canine life coach?