Acrobats (detail), Japanese handscroll, nineteenth century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim, 1945.

Happiness

Volume XII, Number 3 | summer 2019

The Impossible Dream

David Wootton

Government Work

Maddy Crowell

The Loneliest of Species

Jay Griffiths

Hell Breaks Loose

Henry Freedland

Map

Miscellany

Voices In Time

World to Come

c. 1105 | Tus

Looking Up

1876 | Laurel Springs, NJ

Misery Loves Coventry

1759 | Abyssinia

Prodigal Son

1919 | Winesburg, OH

This Land Is Her Land

390 BC | Athens

Good News

c. 200 | Athens

Pathetic Fallacy

1885 | Vilamorta

Grace and Favor

1770 | Paris

We Happy Few

1898 | Bakumovka

In a Perfect World

1953 | Anaheim, CA

Goods and Services

c. 380 BC | Athens

Trumpery

1590 | Eseldorf

Words to the Wise

1621 | Oxford

Code of Conduct

1735 | Philadelphia

Do Not Disturb

c. 400 | Chaisang

True North

1795 | Copenhagen

Measure for Measure

c. 300 BC | Athens

Paradise Lost

1851 | Frankfurt

Accounting for Taste

1817 | London

Face Value

1872 | Downe

Soul Asylum

58 | Rome

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