Essay Animals Our Orgiastic Future By Jack Hitt What do bonobos have in common with teenaged boys? As it turns out, quite a bit. More
Essay Celebrity Against Appearances By Bruce Bawer Orson Welles became a star not by creating some great work, but by simply scaring the hell out of people. More
Essay Intoxication Last Testaments By Francine Prose What do artists and writers do when they are faced with the imminence of death? Francine Prose reviews the final works of historian Tony Judt. More
Essay Memory Mortal Soul, Moral Soul By Anne Michaels What happens when private grief becomes common experience? More
Essay Animals How to Be a Stuffed Animal By Frances Stonor Saunders The American Museum of Natural History, Teddy Roosevelt, and the importance of taxidermy. More
Essay Time Time After Time By John Crowley It’s possible to live in more than one time, more than one history of the world, without feeling a pressing need to reconcile them. More
Essay Philanthropy Treasure in Heaven By Peter Brown St. Augustine and other early Christians challenged the Roman idea of charity by invoking the ultimate authority—God. More
Essay Music Songs from Sinjar By Alex Cuadros How ISIS is hastening the end of the Yezidis’ ancient oral tradition. More
Essay Rule of Law Separation of Power By William Hogeland To make a more perfect union, don’t look to the Founding Fathers. More
Essay Book of Nature And Such Small Deer By Garret Keizer A writer struggles to defend his trees from a pack of hungry deer—“an episode of great vexation and buffoonery.” More
