Essay Medicine Great Expectations By Noga Arikha Medicine was once a humanistic endeavor, an art as well as a science. Today both doctors and patients fail to see that we are more than just our bodies. More
Essay Travel Nowhere Need Be Foreign By Pico Iyer What should travel writing look like in a world where the global and local are more indistinguishable than ever? More
Essay Politics Trial by Fire By Anthony Grafton Hot gospelling preacher or savvy political operator? Reexamining the life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. More
Essay Disaster Katastrofa By Aleksandar Hemon To understand our histories we have to narrate our catastrophes. More
Essay Celebrity A Public Man By Andrew McConnell Stott The sheer gravitational weight of Lord Byron’s fame had the power to distort everything around it. More
Essay States of Mind The Ghost and the Princess By Anthony Gottlieb The correspondence of René Descartes and Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia—a debate about mind, soul, and immortality. More
Essay Family A Harmony in Living By Garret Keizer Happy families are indeed all alike in calling forth the best of their members’ humanity. More
Essay Night The Fading Stars: A Constellation By Holly Haworth How the new astronomy obscured the traditional night sky. More
