Essay Foreigners Enemy Aliens By Andrea Pitzer The life of Austrian painter Paul Cohen-Portheim and the forgotten history of World War I internment camps. More
Essay Communication Native Tongues By Simon Winchester The making of the Dictionary of American Regional English, a five-thousand-page, five-volume book documenting the history of American slang. More
Essay Celebrity A Public Man By Andrew McConnell Stott The sheer gravitational weight of Lord Byron’s fame had the power to distort everything around it. More
Essay Rule of Law The World’s Greatest Outlaw By Richard Cohen The life of Samuel Johnson, would-be attorney-at-law. More
Essay Happiness The Loneliest of Species By Jay Griffiths Can bridging the divide between animals and humans bring about lasting happiness? More
Essay Time Time After Time By John Crowley It’s possible to live in more than one time, more than one history of the world, without feeling a pressing need to reconcile them. More
Essay Crimes & Punishments Murder in Black & White By Nathaniel Rich A history of film noir, America’s cinematic take on life on the bottom. 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 Time Strange Days By Sven Birkerts During convalescence it grows hard to tell the difference between when to pass the time and when to allow time to pass through. More