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

The Loneliest of Species

Jay Griffiths

Hell Breaks Loose

Henry Freedland

Map

Happy Places

Miscellany

Misfortune favors the folded.

A happy old man.

The smile report.

Plot twist.

Collective happiness bark.

Living in the now.

An equation for benevolence.

Somebody else’s lake.

Selling short.

A corrected world.

The sweet smell of success.

The rod of punishment.

I’m Nobody!

An acute case of Americanitis.

Fourteen days.

Happiest place still on Earth.

Sip the sun slowly.

The future is here.

Speak now or forever hold your hehes.

A typology of lol.

Voices In Time

Measure for Measure

c. 300 BC | Athens

Prodigal Son

1919 | Winesburg, OH

Pathetic Fallacy

1885 | Vilamorta

Paradise Lost

1851 | Frankfurt

Trumpery

1590 | Eseldorf

Grace and Favor

1770 | Paris

In a Perfect World

1953 | Anaheim, CA

Present Company Excluded

1823 | Paris

Soul Asylum

58 | Rome

This Land Is Her Land

390 BC | Athens

Looking Up

1876 | Laurel Springs, NJ

Good News

c. 200 | Athens

Misery Loves Coventry

1759 | Abyssinia

Face Value

1872 | Downe

Do Not Disturb

c. 400 | Chaisang

Accounting for Taste

1817 | London

Code of Conduct

1735 | Philadelphia

We Happy Few

1898 | Bakumovka

World to Come

c. 1105 | Tus

Goods and Services

c. 380 BC | Athens

Words to the Wise

1621 | Oxford

True North

1795 | Copenhagen

Charts and Graphs

The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire

Gardens of Earthly Delights

Happy Little Trees

Happily Ever After

If You Want to Be Happy…

Business and Pleasure

Ups and Downs

Divine Smiles

For Better or for Worse

Counting Happiness

Contributors

Conversations

Thomas More and Miya Tokumitsu

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