Essay Sports & Games Blossom and Fade By John Crowley Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game is an experience with the pathos and wonder of all games—the game that is the universe. More
Essay Medicine Oath of Office By Richard Selzer A conversation between Richard Selzer & Peter Josyph on the origins of the Hippocratic Oath. More
Essay Disaster Katastrofa By Aleksandar Hemon To understand our histories we have to narrate our catastrophes. More
Essay Food It’s What’s for Dinner By Scott Korb To be an ethical eater, one can no longer betray a deep ignorance about the workings of nature. More
Essay Family The Stories We Live With By Philip Connors Death turned his brother into a cipher, and it would take a return home to collect the pieces of a shattered life. More
Essay Music The Emperor’s New Music By Xiaofei Tian The high stakes of popular music in ancient China. More
Essay Intoxication Fabled Powers By Sven Birkerts For an artist, a day of successful inspiration is also a day a systematic intoxication. More
Essay The Future The Next Future By John Crowley Any prediction about what is to come runs the risk of being more about the present than the future. More
Essay Disaster The Anomaly of Barbarism By John Gray The brutality of Islamist terrorism has many precedents. More
