Essay The City A Matter of Optics By Warren Breckman Rulers of cities have always had an interest in visibility, both in representing their power and in controlling people by seeing them. More
Essay Music How Deep Is Your Love? By Alison Kinney How Ludwig II’s love for Richard Wagner inspired the world’s greatest work of fan art. More
Essay Rivalry & Feud Love’s Labors Lost By Jayne Anne Phillips The resolution of America’s best-known feud. More
Essay Book of Nature The Art of Nature By Frederick Turner Human art, fiction, invention, and technology are not unnatural forces that have suddenly erupted into nature, but rather the natural continuation of nature’s own evolutionary processes. More
Essay Trade A World Built on Sand and Oil By Laleh Khalili When natural resources become essential commodities. More
Essay Youth The Long Goodbye By Michael Wood A reconsideration of Gustave Flaubert’s A Sentimental Education—and the very idea of growing up. More
Essay Arts & Letters Beauty Is Shoe By Wendy Steiner Is the model a subject, or is the subject a model? More
Essay Religion The Courtesy of God By Garret Keizer Never mind does God exist—does the God debate exist? Reexamining the relationship between faith and reason. More
