Essay Magic Shows W.B. Yeats, Magus By Jamie James For William Butler Yeats, poetry was a kind of magic. More
Essay Fashion When Women Ruled Fashion By Joan DeJean In the late seventeenth century, haute couture was produced by women, for women. More
Essay Communication Tape Delay By Madeline Miller How we misread Virgil for two thousand years, and what made it possible for a small group of scholars to figure it out. More
Essay Democracy Hiding in Plain Sight By David Graeber and David Wengrow Democracy’s indigenous origins in the Americas. More
Essay Energy Truth Actually By Tom Roston A tour through a century of climate-change documentaries. More
Essay Trade A World Built on Sand and Oil By Laleh Khalili When natural resources become essential commodities. 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 Lines of Work A Talent for Sloth By Philip Connors Ten years as a lookout on a fire tower requires a particular aptitude for idleness. More
