The Destruction of Tyre, by John Martin, 1840. © Toledo Museum of Art, purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, gift of Edward Drummond Libbey.

Fear

Volume X, Number 3 | summer 2017

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Petrified Forest

Lewis H. Lapham

In Search of Fear

Philippe Petit

The Dread Gorgon

Caroline Alexander

Land of Darkness

Suki Kim

Every Pebble Can Blow Us Sky-High

J. Hoberman

Fear of Arrival

Ivan Vladislavić

Map

Fire Down Below

Miscellany

Race to self-destruction.

Definitely dead.

Christ is Coming.

Scaring SNL to death.

Rats, dragons, bees.

Rural pests would simply laugh.

The war of Quito.

Little Albert.

Intellect and will.

A promiscuous mob.

All afraid.

Stay inside.

Unfortunate homophobia.

You made me a monster.

Drop and roll.

Rendering the approach of night a terror.

Have nothing, lose nothing.

The snake’s all yours.

The tooth fairy.

Left and right.

Voices In Time

Fear Not

| Turkey

Hate Speech

| Washington, DC

Scared to Death

| Cambridge, MA

Bad Moon Rising

| Felixstowe

Suspicious Minds

| Voorburg

Harm Done

| Oxford

Expectation Management

c. | Athens

Love Lost

| Rome

Night Vision

| Berlin

Torment Unforeseen

| St. Petersburg

Fire Alarm

c. | Kingdom of Judah

Body Language

| Downe

Dust to Dust

| Philadelphia

Invasions of the Body Snatchers

| United States

Devil’s Advocate

c. | Bogotá

Lambs to Slaughter

| Gnadenhütten, OH

Mutual Aid

| London

Mother’s Little Helper

c. | United States

Attack

| Somme

Class Act

| Oyster Bay, NY

Panikon

| Thermopylae

Heads Above Water

| Atlantic Ocean

Home Insecurity

| Paris

Regret the Errors

| Cambridge, MA

Shock and Awe

| London

Unwritten Law

| Chicago

Inheritance

| Igloolik

Fears Founded and Unfounded

| Vienna

What Are They Afraid Of?

| Chiapas

Ghost Story

c. | Forres

Weird Tales

| Providence

Charts and Graphs

Bogeyman Hunt

Fear Factor

Minutes to Midnight

Armed Guards

The Scream Franchise

“Fear Itself,” Itself

Not an Act

Mass Panics

Survival Guide

Contributors

Conversations

Margery Kempe & Central Intelligence Agency

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Lapham’sDaily

U.S. secretary of agriculture Sonny Perdue meets with German minister of food and agriculture Christian Schmidt, 2017.

DÉjÀ Vu

Equal Climates

2017:

U.S. Department of Agriculture bans words related to climate change.

-350:

Aristotle denies that the climate is changing.

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The 7th New York Militia Regiment marches down Broadway, an illustration from Harper’s Weekly, 1861.

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#11 John Strausbaugh

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