Essay Food The Imperial Kitchen By Jason Goodwin Ottoman cuisine developed over centuries as the imperial center of an empire of food. More
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 States of War Storm Warning By Caleb Carr Are there meaningful parallels between America today and late imperial Rome, and will they suffer a similar fate? More
Essay Communication Tape Delay By Madeline Miller How we misread Virgil for two thousand years, and what made it possible for a small group of scholars to figure it out. More
Essay Rule of Law Immune from the Law? By Joan Cocks The curious case of the sovereign citizens movement. More
Essay Epidemic The Virus and the Martians By Mike Jay In H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, an all-conquering civilization had no defense against a humble microbe. More
Essay States of Mind The Ghost and the Princess By Anthony Gottlieb The correspondence of René Descartes and Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia—a debate about mind, soul, and immortality. More
Essay Eros Eros Between the Covers By Francine Prose A reconsideration of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. More
