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1843 Magazine

June/July 2020

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Features
Into the dark
We live in an age of information overload. So what happens when you unplug your life? Tom Lamont finds out
Ghosts at the museum
Inexplicable noises, spectral sightings, sudden drops in temperature – something strange is going on at the British Museum. As the clamour over colonial restitution grows, Killian Fox investigates the collection’s restless objects
Death of the office
As the pandemic leaves offices around the world empty, Catherine Nixey asks what was the point of them anyway?
Close to the wind
They came for indulgence, relaxation and bottomless buffets. Then they found themselves trapped on a ship infected with a deadly virus. Joshua Hunt tells the story of the Diamond Princess
Upfront
The 1843 interview Gaming with Joshua Wong
All the rage Amabie: the mythical creature making a coronavirus comeback
Postcard from Silicon Valley The Instagram aesthetic comes home
Brave new word A guide to covid-19 slang
Design
My life in six objects Roland Mouret
Stranger things I tie my laces with the triumph of a child
Beyond human The sniff test
Rewind Why global crises are the mother of invention
Style
Dress code It’s hard to buy a dress in a pandemic
The science of fashion Why spider silk is nature’s most elusive textile
The Line of Beauty Why stripes are shapely, sexy and transgressive
Fashion victim Shoes are my madeleine, evoking times past
Food
China Hidden treasures
World in a dish Chicken soup
The ingredient Asafoetida
Journeys
Russia In the footsteps of a murderer
The bluff guide How to talk about Oaxaca when you’ve never been
And finally...
How we live now Greeting in the age of social distance
#FirstWorldProblems Do you know a good... homework therapist?