Guests at a Banquet, tempera facsimile by Nina de Garis Davies after a fourteenth-century-BC Egyptian frieze, c. 1920.

Guests at a Banquet, tempera facsimile by Nina de Garis Davies after a fourteenth-century-bc Egyptian frieze, c. 1920. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1930.

Friendship

Volume XIV, Number 2 | spring 2021

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That Gummy Jungle

Francine Prose

Summer, Glorious Summer!

B.D. McClay

Map

Friends, Romans, Countrymen

Miscellany

Same wavelength.

Fox news.

You are the eater.

American crowd cowed.

Magical math.

Fish tank.

Smile and bob.

Tell me everything.

Esprit de corps.

Closed for confidants.

The god of friendship.

Started from the bottom.

Gene-pool party.

One-way street.

Voices In Time

Ourselves Owning

1891 | Camden, NJ

Work Spouse

1851 | New Bedford, MA

That Whole River to Ourselves

c. 1840 | Mississippi River

Rare Commodity

c. 330 BC | Athens

Happy Hour

1839 | Paris

Keep Your Enemies Closer

1878 | Bougival

Deeply Personal Commitment

1843 | Weybridge, VT

Friends in High Places

1558 | Paris

Asking for a Friend

2021 | Chicago

Invisible Thread

1840 | Paris

Mad Men

838 | Luoyang

Direct Mail

1842 | Hoddesdon

Very Slender Differences

1758 | London

Cash Crop

1625 | London

Good Taste

c. 720 BC | Qi

Potluck

1616 | London

Great Expectations

1831 | Beccles

Man’s Best Friend

1709 | London

Higher Love

1750 | London

Mutual Aid and Support

1902 | Bromley

Labor Union

1886 | London

No Rose Without a Thorn

1786 | Paris

Chemistry Test

1878 | London

Job Interview

1674 | London

Fair-Weather Friends

c. 430 BC | Athens

Risky Business

c. 1905 | London

Parting Words

1759 | Yorkshire

Emotional Support

1872 | Downe

Party Host

2019 | Portland, OR

Charts and Graphs

Tokens of Appreciation

Digital Get Down

Pen Pals

The Lonely Generation

Watering Holes

Good While It Lasted

Objects of Affection

Friend Commandments

All in Your Head

Contributors

Conversations

H.L. Mencken & r/Ask Reddit

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