Essay Medicine Early Islamic Medicine By Jonathan Lyons The history of Western medicine owes much to its encounters with the medieval Muslim world, yet this debt seems destined to go unrecognized and unrepaid. More
Essay The City Necropolis By Colin Dickey The corpse has proved to be a bedeviling problem for the city—how do we live with our dead? More
Essay Animals One of Us By John Jeremiah Sullivan Can animals think or feel, experience joy or sadness? Can they know their own existence? More
Essay The Future Apocalypse Now By Tom Holland At the close of the first millennium, it seemed assured that the end of the world was nigh. 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 States of Mind The Person in the Ape By Ferris Jabr A history of humans trying and failing to understand the minds of apes. More
Essay Book of Nature The Great Bend By Simon Winchester What if the Yangtze River had turned south instead of east? More
