Essay Crimes & Punishments Hostile Takeovers By Matthew Power Are the values espoused by Somali pirates so very different from those upon which America was founded? More
Essay Music Songs from Sinjar By Alex Cuadros How ISIS is hastening the end of the Yezidis’ ancient oral tradition. 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 Fashion When Women Ruled Fashion By Joan DeJean In the late seventeenth century, haute couture was produced by women, for women. 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 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 Arts & Letters In the Gloom the Gold By Jamie James Consider the legacy of Ezra Pound—no poet has ever been so influential, so controversial, and so little read. More
Essay Night The Fading Stars: A Constellation By Holly Haworth How the new astronomy obscured the traditional night sky. 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
