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

Smile and bob.

Esprit de corps.

Magical math.

The god of friendship.

Gene-pool party.

One-way street.

American crowd cowed.

You are the eater.

Closed for confidants.

Fish tank.

Started from the bottom.

Same wavelength.

Tell me everything.

Fox news.

Voices In Time

Risky Business

c. 1905 | London

Emotional Support

1872 | Downe

Labor Union

1886 | London

Direct Mail

1842 | Hoddesdon

Job Interview

1674 | London

Rare Commodity

c. 330 BC | Athens

Work Spouse

1851 | New Bedford, MA

Good Taste

c. 720 BC | Qi

Parting Words

1759 | Yorkshire

Cash Crop

1625 | London

No Rose Without a Thorn

1786 | Paris

Invisible Thread

1840 | Paris

Friends in High Places

1558 | Paris

That Whole River to Ourselves

c. 1840 | Mississippi River

Higher Love

1750 | London

Mutual Aid and Support

1902 | Bromley

Very Slender Differences

1758 | London

Potluck

1616 | London

Chemistry Test

1878 | London

Great Expectations

1831 | Beccles

Ourselves Owning

1891 | Camden, NJ

Man’s Best Friend

1709 | London

Keep Your Enemies Closer

1878 | Bougival

Happy Hour

1839 | Paris

Asking for a Friend

2021 | Chicago

Fair-Weather Friends

c. 430 BC | Athens

Deeply Personal Commitment

1843 | Weybridge, VT

Party Host

2019 | Portland, OR

Mad Men

838 | Luoyang

Charts and Graphs

The Lonely Generation

Watering Holes

Digital Get Down

Good While It Lasted

Tokens of Appreciation

Objects of Affection

Pen Pals

All in Your Head

Friend Commandments

Contributors

Conversations

H.L. Mencken & r/Ask Reddit

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Monumental Mistakes

2023:

Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.

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Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.

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