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

The Loneliest of Species

Jay Griffiths

Hell Breaks Loose

Henry Freedland

Government Work

Maddy Crowell

Map

Happy Places

Miscellany

Misfortune favors the folded.

I’m Nobody!

Somebody else’s lake.

The smile report.

The rod of punishment.

A corrected world.

Living in the now.

Fourteen days.

Sip the sun slowly.

A happy old man.

An acute case of Americanitis.

Speak now or forever hold your hehes.

The sweet smell of success.

The future is here.

An equation for benevolence.

Selling short.

A typology of lol.

Collective happiness bark.

Happiest place still on Earth.

Plot twist.

Voices In Time

Good News

c. 200 | Athens

Paradise Lost

1851 | Frankfurt

Present Company Excluded

1823 | Paris

Pathetic Fallacy

1885 | Vilamorta

Measure for Measure

c. 300 BC | Athens

Prodigal Son

1919 | Winesburg, OH

Grace and Favor

1770 | Paris

World to Come

c. 1105 | Tus

Goods and Services

c. 380 BC | Athens

Do Not Disturb

c. 400 | Chaisang

Accounting for Taste

1817 | London

In a Perfect World

1953 | Anaheim, CA

Code of Conduct

1735 | Philadelphia

Misery Loves Coventry

1759 | Abyssinia

This Land Is Her Land

390 BC | Athens

We Happy Few

1898 | Bakumovka

True North

1795 | Copenhagen

Trumpery

1590 | Eseldorf

Words to the Wise

1621 | Oxford

Face Value

1872 | Downe

Soul Asylum

58 | Rome

Looking Up

1876 | Laurel Springs, NJ

Charts and Graphs

Divine Smiles

Happily Ever After

The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire

Ups and Downs

If You Want to Be Happy…

Happy Little Trees

For Better or for Worse

Business and Pleasure

Gardens of Earthly Delights

Counting Happiness

Contributors

Conversations

Thomas More and Miya Tokumitsu

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