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Winter of our re-content

Make stylish clothing for the Gypsy jet set, or feed the soul? A fashion designer redesigns herself with the help of a life [...]

Frozen roots

When a Turk raised in a conservative Brooklyn emigrant community studies in Istanbul she realizes progress comes from a community, not a [...]

Sweet but sticky

By adhering to her own cultural norm, an Irishwoman sets into motion an endless cycle of regifting a dessert [...]

Sink or swim

Easy answers to complex cultural questions can’t prepare an American for her submersive role as member of a Kurdish tribe by [...]

I dream of GenY

When birth year alone means a Baby Boomer would always occupy an entry-level position in her cultural generation, GenY brings the status quo rebellion she [...]

Mapping the imagination

Moving abroad and having to live in a world she only imagined, a mapmaker’s art [...]

Same river, never twice

What do you miss most about your home country? The solid reality of family and places — or an atmosphere long since [...]

Change of direction

A fashion designer leaves the exploitation [...]

The twinge of heritage

After four generations of immigration, a New World woman finds the mysteries of extended lineage often crop up as synchronicity, quirks of taste, wanderlust: ghost urges from genes and culture long ago [...]

It takes a virtual village

A virtual network of mothers helps an Irishwoman in Turkey raise her children by the standards she grew up [...]