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1843 Magazine

February/March 2020

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Features
Trapped in Iran
In July 2019 Nicolas Pelham, The Economist’s Middle East correspondent, received a rare journalist’s visa to Iran. On the day he was due to fly home, he was detained
All the fun of the fair
Frieze London is one of the biggest events in the art calendar. But what actually happens there? Mark O’Connell explores this crucible of creativity and commerce
Do you sometimes feel like a fraud?
Many people feel like they are just waiting to be found out. Clancy Martin investigates the modern epidemic of impostor syndrome
Upfront
The 1843 interview Shopping with Chimamanda
All the rage All the rage
Cheat's guide How Andy Warhol invented American art
Postcard from Silicon Valley I went shopping in the future
Brave new word Coxinha: a new insult from Brazil
Design
My life in six objects Grayson Perry: the teddy bear that is like a God to me
Brand illusions The sweet sound of success
Stranger things Forks used to be instruments of oppression
Beyond human How a vibrating bracelet can soothe the mind
Rewind An 18th-century moral panic sounds surprisingly familiar
Style
Dress code I tried to radiate dominatrix
The science of fashion The democratisation of velvet
The Line of Beauty Knitting’s tangled history
Fashion victim Why do people buy suitcases at airports?
Food
India When the spirit is willing
The ingredient Tamarind delivers a double punch of sweet and sour
World in a dish How mac ’n’ cheese was baked into American culture
Journeys
Britain The Syrian refugees who went to Bute
The bluff guide How to talk about Menorca when you’ve never been
Taste the fear BASE jumping in Utah
And finally...
How we live now Headphones have destroyed our sense of common purpose
#FirstWorldProblems Do you know a good... canine life coach?