Acrobats (detail), Japanese handscroll, nineteenth century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim, 1945.

Happiness

Volume XII, Number 3 | summer 2019

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The Impossible Dream

David Wootton

Government Work

Maddy Crowell

Hell Breaks Loose

Henry Freedland

The Loneliest of Species

Jay Griffiths

Map

Happy Places

Miscellany

An equation for benevolence.

Somebody else’s lake.

Collective happiness bark.

A typology of lol.

The sweet smell of success.

Happiest place still on Earth.

I’m Nobody!

A corrected world.

Selling short.

A happy old man.

Plot twist.

The future is here.

Sip the sun slowly.

The smile report.

Speak now or forever hold your hehes.

Fourteen days.

An acute case of Americanitis.

The rod of punishment.

Living in the now.

Misfortune favors the folded.

Voices In Time

Measure for Measure

c. 300 BC | Athens

Good News

c. 200 | Athens

True North

1795 | Copenhagen

Words to the Wise

1621 | Oxford

World to Come

c. 1105 | Tus

Present Company Excluded

1823 | Paris

Soul Asylum

58 | Rome

We Happy Few

1898 | Bakumovka

Face Value

1872 | Downe

Goods and Services

c. 380 BC | Athens

Code of Conduct

1735 | Philadelphia

In a Perfect World

1953 | Anaheim, CA

Prodigal Son

1919 | Winesburg, OH

Grace and Favor

1770 | Paris

Accounting for Taste

1817 | London

Looking Up

1876 | Laurel Springs, NJ

Trumpery

1590 | Eseldorf

Misery Loves Coventry

1759 | Abyssinia

Paradise Lost

1851 | Frankfurt

Pathetic Fallacy

1885 | Vilamorta

This Land Is Her Land

390 BC | Athens

Do Not Disturb

c. 400 | Chaisang

Charts and Graphs

Counting Happiness

Ups and Downs

For Better or for Worse

The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire

Business and Pleasure

If You Want to Be Happy…

Happily Ever After

Happy Little Trees

Gardens of Earthly Delights

Divine Smiles

Contributors

Conversations

Thomas More and Miya Tokumitsu

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