Essay Spies Agents of Betrayal By Lawrence Osborne A reconsideration of Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana. More
Essay Crimes & Punishments From the Drawing Room to the Gutter By Charles Taylor Crime fiction affords its readers a way to acknowledge the world’s violence without either succumbing to despair or believing it can be made to go away. More
Essay Celebrity Consumer Products By Stephen Marche Celebrity culture may seem ahistorical, but its roots reach deeply into the past four hundred years. More
Essay Education A Speculative Endeavor By Eleni Schirmer Education has become an investment. But what are its returns? More
Essay Magic Shows W.B. Yeats, Magus By Jamie James For William Butler Yeats, poetry was a kind of magic. More
Essay Swindle & Fraud We Buy Broken Gold By Clancy Martin Why would a wealthy diamond merchant in a three-thousand-dollar suit want to cheat me out of a hundred bucks’ worth of gold? More
Essay Lines of Work The Mother of Possibility By Sven Birkerts Idleness is what happens when we thwart the impulse to plan forward, and instead enjoy the present. More
Essay Sports & Games The Best of It By Beth Raymer The key to winning money is knowing a good line when you see one. 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
