Essay The Sea Open Waters By Simon Winchester Simon Winchester muses on what it means to be truly at sea. More
Essay Death Last Meals By Brent Cunningham The choice of the final meal contains a curious paradox: why mark the end of a life with the stuff that fuels it? 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 Trade A World Built on Sand and Oil By Laleh Khalili When natural resources become essential commodities. More
Essay Medicine Dissection By Meehan Crist Medical students are forced to change their perceptions of the dead. There is a human instinct that must be overcome to stick knives and fingers into human flesh. More
Essay Fashion The Climb of Ivy By W. David Marx The styles of the American Ivy League transform the fashions of 1960s Japan. More
Essay The City Dickens in Lagos By George Packer In Nigeria, modernity hasn’t yet begun to solve the problems of people thrown together in the urban cauldron. More
Essay The Sea A Winelike Sea By Caroline Alexander Homer’s famous “wine-dark sea” has left scholars wondering: how did the Greeks truly see the sea? More
Essay The Future Quack Prophet By Colin Dickey The prophecies of Nostradamus were cryptic and garbled—but they also let us see what we wanted to see. More
Essay Magic Shows Stage Light By Andrew McConnell Stott The life of artist and scenographer Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, and the role of the occult in the history of special effects. More
