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

Truth Actually

Tom Roston

What Is Human Energy?

Richard Cohen

Map

Miscellany

Voices In Time

Things Flow Away

1956 | Yangtze River

Just Keeps Going and Going

1837 | New York City

Machine Learning

2007 | Red Sea

Habitation of Hell

1638 | Vesuvius

A Murder of Quails

1885 | Rome

Little Bubble of Glass

1910 | Chicago

Radioactive Matters

1898 | Paris

Field of Dreams

c. 1910 | Beach City, CA

Propensity to Sloth

1588 | Aquitaine

A Quiet Thing

1865 | Amherst, MA

Second Wind

1906 | New York City

No Wood, No Kingdom

1611 | England

Power Dynamics

1865 | Manchester

Living Land

1855 | The Netherlands

Hit the Brakes

1945 | Washington, DC

Everything Everywhere All at Once

1891 | New York City

Eternal Delight

1790 | London

Civilization

1909 | Atlantic Ocean

Earthquake

1755 | Lisbon

May Cause Side Effects

2021 | Palo Alto

A Moment Like This

c. 370 BC | Athens

Combined Energy

c. 500 BC | Wu

A More Vindictive Energy

c. 1843 | Avoyelles Parish, LA

Possessed by Fire

331 BC | Babylon

Degrees of Elevation

1751 | London

Taxes Due

2012 | Santa Barbara, CA

Night Vision

1913 | Moscow

Elements of Surprise

1910 | Edinburgh

City Lights

1910 | New York City

Gristmill

c. 1190 | Bury St. Edmunds

Geology Lesson

1842 | Lowell, MA

Ebb and Flow

c. 944 | Al-Fustat

Postmortem

1803 | London

Renewable Energy

1912 | New York City

Lightning in a Bottle

1752 | Philadelphia

Good Grease

c. 1885 | Lima, OH

Morning Glory

c. 1350 BC | Amarna

Saint Catherine’s Oil

c. 1540 | Antwerp

Inner Feeling

1809 | Paris

The Best Charcoal

c. 320 BC | Athens

Fountain of Youth

1924 | Paris

Executive Energy

1788 | New York City

Force Field

1492 | Milan

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