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In a recent post, Bryan Washington wrote about the value of Friendsgiving and the idea that the best way to celebrate might just be crafting your own version of what family—and good friends—mean to you. For many of us, the holiday means gathering with loved ones and celebrating the good things that have happened to us throughout the year. For others, the holiday may take on another meaning via volunteering at a soup kitchen, providing meals to the elderly, or other charitable work. But, for nearly everyone, the festivities involve offering some kind of thanks for the opportunities and good fortune of the past year. One of the best ways of expressing gratitude is to give back—and so, as a way of saying thank you, we’re bringing you a selection of some of our favorite Thanksgiving stories. In “Magical Dinners,” Chang-rae Lee recounts his family’s elaborate immigrant meals. In “Pilgrim’s Progress,” Jane Kramer recalls the many Thanksgiving dinners that she has prepared while working as a reporter abroad. In “Talking Turkey,” Bill Buford visits a biologist who became a wild-turkey expert and examines the history of wild turkeys in North America. Ariel Levy writes about a poignant and painful loss during a Thanksgiving trip in Mongolia. In “The First Served,” Adam Gopnik examines Benjamin Franklin’s early proposal that the turkey replace the bald eagle as America’s national bird. More recently, Philip Deloria explores the myths behind the story of Thanksgiving and asks us to reëxamine our assumptions about the history of the celebration. Below you’ll find these stories and other notable holiday pieces. Consider them our thanks to our readers this season. Happy Thanksgiving.
—Erin Overbey, archive editor
Kitchen Notes
Friendsgiving Will Set You Free
What Friendsgiving looks like, in practice—or what it means, in theory—is really up to you. That’s what makes it beautiful.
By Bryan Washington
Recollections
Magical Dinners
An immigrant Thanksgiving.
By Chang-rae Lee
Notes of a Gastronome
Talking Turkey
The man who communicates with gobblers.
By Bill Buford
Comment
The First Served
In this gloomy moment, it is even possible to see in the Thanksgiving turkey a symbol of the supposed-to-be declining country that it feeds.
By Adam Gopnik
Personal History
Pilgrim’s Progress
Thanksgiving without borders.
By Jane Kramer
Personal History
Thanksgiving in Mongolia
Adventure and heartbreak at the edge of the earth.
By Ariel Levy
A Critic at Large
The Invention of Thanksgiving
Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.
By Philip Deloria
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