Essay Politics Working the Room By Michael Phillips-Anderson Presidential humor from Lincoln to Kennedy to Reagan. More
Essay Time Strange Days By Sven Birkerts During convalescence it grows hard to tell the difference between when to pass the time and when to allow time to pass through. More
Essay Education Schoolboy, Where Are You Going? By Moudhy Al-Rashid Scribal education in the ancient Mesopotamian tablet house. More
Essay Comedy Split Personalities By Andrew McConnell Stott Is it a condition of comic genius to be always wrestling with demons? More
Essay Medicine In the Midst of Death By John Crowley If the universe can’t outlive or transcend individual consciousness, does death even really exist? More
Essay Eros Up Close and Personal By Noga Arikha The evolution of personal ads, from the newspaper to the social network. More
Essay Lines of Work Tools of the Trade By Peter Stothard Slavery was the energy industry of the ancients—no part of the empire was untouched by its effects. More
Essay Discovery Queer Theorem By Samantha Hunt Dark rooms, deadly machines, and dangerous theories—toward a life beyond mechanistic science. More
Essay Lines of Work Lost Tools By Donovan Hohn A tour of the antique tool trade confirms that they just don’t make things like they used to. More
