Essay Eros Up Close and Personal By Noga Arikha The evolution of personal ads, from the newspaper to the social network. 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 Intoxication Last Testaments By Francine Prose What do artists and writers do when they are faced with the imminence of death? Francine Prose reviews the final works of historian Tony Judt. More
Essay Crimes & Punishments Law & Order By Michael Dirda A reconsideration of Aeschylus’ The Oresteia. More
Essay Climate In the Shadow of Caesar By Kyle Harper On the volcanic eruption that set an ominous stage for the death throes of the Roman Republic. More
Essay Comedy Once Upon a Time in the West By Ben Tarnoff How a simple story of a man and his talented frog made Mark Twain a national celebrity. More
Essay Politics Tales of Brave Ulysses By H.W. Brands Ulysses S. Grant was overlooked by historians and underestimated by contemporaries. H.W. Brands reevaluates Grant’s presidency. More
Essay About Money Arts Endowment By Tim Parks Banking, metaphysics, and art in fifteenth-century Florence. More
