Essay The Sea Around Alone By Maggie Shipstead The challenge of the world’s first solo, nonstop, around-the-world yacht race: to endure the danger of the sea, and the strain of solitude. More
Essay Youth The Long Goodbye By Michael Wood A reconsideration of Gustave Flaubert’s A Sentimental Education—and the very idea of growing up. More
Essay Intoxication Players Club By Rebecca Lemon From Falstaff to Cassio, intoxication to addiction, a brief history of Shakespeare and alcohol. More
Essay Celebrity Gilgamesh to Gaga By John Tresch Fame machines have always found ways to conjure up and emanate glory, to magnify the power of kings and gods. More
Essay The City Waiting for Goffman By Michael Dirda There are few better interpreters of modern metropolitan life than sociologist Erving Goffman. More
Essay Family The Oakling and the Oak By Anne Fadiman How the prodigal son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge faced his demons, and his father’s shadow. More
Essay Medicine Dissection By Meehan Crist Medical students are forced to change their perceptions of the dead. There is a human instinct that must be overcome to stick knives and fingers into human flesh. More
