The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834, by Joseph Mallord William Turner, c. 1835. © The Philadelphia Museum of Art / Art Resource.

Disaster

Volume IX, Number 2 | spring 2016

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Shock and Awe

Lewis H. Lapham

Pressure Drop

Simon Winchester

The Anomaly of Barbarism

John Gray

Katastrofa

Aleksandar Hemon

Human Error

Jennifer Jacquet

Solidarity and Survival

Garret Keizer

Map

Survival of the Fittest

Miscellany

Brimstone and fire.

Bomb proof.

The barbershop.

Great Famine.

Concealing brown.

They hadn’t noticed.

Never take no cutoffs.

Mineralogy.

Risk calculation.

Book-burning.

Oxygen catastrophe.

The scapegoat.

Goodbye, locusts.

Henry James.

End of the world.

Altar of anxiety.

Glaciers.

Charley to Eloise.

Like any other town.

Act of God.

Voices In Time

Onward to Armaggedon

2015 | Syria

Heavenly Compulsion

c. 800 BC | Britain

Annus Horribilis

1666 | London

Aboard the Titanic

1912 | Atlantic Ocean

Superfluous Torment

c. 65 | Rome

Sheep to Slaughter

1874 | Wessex

Devil of Destruction

c. 1897 | Russia

Sight Lines

1759 | Glasgow

Apocalypse Now

95 | Patmos

Want of Foresight

1847 | Rutland, VT

Policy Brief

1260 | Japan

The Human Response

1906 | Palo Alto, CA

Hard as Stones

1864 | Columbia, SC

Water Over the Dam

1889 | St. Louis, MO

Into the Breach

1915 | Chicago

Grim Reaping

c. 1875 | Walnut Grove, MN

Goodbye to All That

2100 | Rome

Fear and Trembling

1692 | Port Royal

Charts and Graphs

Strangers Come to Town

Katrina X-Codes

Chronicles of Disaster Foretold

Madding Crowds

Left Behind

Sheltered Lives

Aftershocks

The Great Deluge

Scapegoats

Contributors

Conversations

Bernard Mandeville & Angelina Jolie

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