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Editors | n+1 | 20th September 2024 A century ago, H. L. Mencken deplored the American "libido for the ugly". Matters have not improved. Even with better design and construction techniques than ever, we have managed to produce a homogenous world of unoriginality. "Our built environment tends overwhelmingly toward the insubstantial, the flat, and the grey, punctuated here and there by the occasional childish squiggle" (3,900 words)
Rumaan Alam | Esquire | 8th October 2024 In praise of a tattooed middle age. "Most of us have some instinct to capture these things; that’s why we save ticket stubs and outgrown baby clothes, take photographs of every memorable taco. We want to remember. This is a losing battle, and we know it. Maybe if I inscribe this stuff on my very body, it will last however long my body does. Maybe I’ve landed on a workaround" (1,400 words)
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