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 Eros Eros Between the Covers By Francine Prose A reconsideration of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. More
Essay Travel A Little Travel Is a Dangerous Thing By D. Graham Burnett The first adventurers in the Age of Discovery didn’t just make progress into uncharted waters, they invented the very idea of progress. More
Essay Magic Shows Healing Spirits By Daniel Mason The uneasy relationship between magic and medicine. 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 Book of Nature Funhouse Goddess By D. Graham Burnett It has never been easy to decipher what nature is trying to tell us, but that hasn’t stopped us from filling in the blanks. A look at the sexual politics of natural law theories. More
Essay Eros Fear and Loathing By Dagmar Herzog How the Kinsey Reports forever altered America’s sexual landscape—and not for the better. More
Essay Death Mournful Creatures By Virginia Morell Humans may be the only animals who understand our mortality, but when it comes to grieving, we are not so unique. More
