Shepherds with Picnic, by Jacob Wothly and Emile Mangel du Mesnil, c. 1864. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2016.

Energy

Volume XV, Number 2 | winter 2024

Power Outage

Lewis H. Lapham

Along the Borderline

Marc Da Costa

What Is Human Energy?

Richard Cohen

Truth Actually

Tom Roston

Map

Miscellany

Voices In Time

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Force Field

1492 | Milan

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

Postmortem

1803 | London

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

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