Shepherds with Picnic, by Jacob Wothly and Emile Mangel du Mesnil, c. 1864. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2016.

Energy

Volume XV, Number 2 | winter 2024

Power Outage

Lewis H. Lapham

Along the Borderline

Marc Da Costa

Truth Actually

Tom Roston

What Is Human Energy?

Richard Cohen

Map

Miscellany

Voices In Time

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Postmortem

1803 | London

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

City Lights

1910 | New York City

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

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