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

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The Impossible Dream

David Wootton

Government Work

Maddy Crowell

The Loneliest of Species

Jay Griffiths

Hell Breaks Loose

Henry Freedland

Map

Happy Places

Miscellany

A typology of lol.

The rod of punishment.

Fourteen days.

The smile report.

An acute case of Americanitis.

A corrected world.

I’m Nobody!

The sweet smell of success.

The future is here.

Misfortune favors the folded.

Living in the now.

Happiest place still on Earth.

Collective happiness bark.

A happy old man.

Sip the sun slowly.

Speak now or forever hold your hehes.

Plot twist.

An equation for benevolence.

Somebody else’s lake.

Selling short.

Voices In Time

Measure for Measure

c. 300 BC | Athens

Misery Loves Coventry

1759 | Abyssinia

Good News

c. 200 | Athens

Soul Asylum

58 | Rome

This Land Is Her Land

390 BC | Athens

Goods and Services

c. 380 BC | Athens

In a Perfect World

1953 | Anaheim, CA

True North

1795 | Copenhagen

We Happy Few

1898 | Bakumovka

Trumpery

1590 | Eseldorf

Prodigal Son

1919 | Winesburg, OH

World to Come

c. 1105 | Tus

Paradise Lost

1851 | Frankfurt

Pathetic Fallacy

1885 | Vilamorta

Accounting for Taste

1817 | London

Do Not Disturb

c. 400 | Chaisang

Code of Conduct

1735 | Philadelphia

Words to the Wise

1621 | Oxford

Looking Up

1876 | Laurel Springs, NJ

Grace and Favor

1770 | Paris

Face Value

1872 | Downe

Present Company Excluded

1823 | Paris

Charts and Graphs

For Better or for Worse

Divine Smiles

Happily Ever After

The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire

Business and Pleasure

Happy Little Trees

Gardens of Earthly Delights

Ups and Downs

Counting Happiness

If You Want to Be Happy…

Contributors

Conversations

Thomas More and Miya Tokumitsu

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