Essay Sports & Games Blossom and Fade By John Crowley Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game is an experience with the pathos and wonder of all games—the game that is the universe. More
Essay Music Songs from Sinjar By Alex Cuadros How ISIS is hastening the end of the Yezidis’ ancient oral tradition. More
Essay Ways of Learning Portraits of the Artist By Howard Singerman If today there is no longer any particular set of skills that must be learned in order for one to make art, how does one become an artist? More
Essay Foreigners Enemy Aliens By Andrea Pitzer The life of Austrian painter Paul Cohen-Portheim and the forgotten history of World War I internment camps. More
Essay Music The Emperor’s New Music By Xiaofei Tian The high stakes of popular music in ancient China. More
Essay Discovery Queer Theorem By Samantha Hunt Dark rooms, deadly machines, and dangerous theories—toward a life beyond mechanistic science. More
Essay Animals How to Be a Stuffed Animal By Frances Stonor Saunders The American Museum of Natural History, Teddy Roosevelt, and the importance of taxidermy. 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 Religion Church & State in America By Elisabeth Sifton The Founding Fathers approached the church-state conundrum with an intellectual clarity that was characteristic of their times. More
