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

One-way street.

The god of friendship.

Magical math.

Esprit de corps.

Fox news.

Fish tank.

Smile and bob.

You are the eater.

American crowd cowed.

Started from the bottom.

Tell me everything.

Same wavelength.

Closed for confidants.

Gene-pool party.

Voices In Time

Fair-Weather Friends

c. 430 BC | Athens

Happy Hour

1839 | Paris

Work Spouse

1851 | New Bedford, MA

Chemistry Test

1878 | London

Deeply Personal Commitment

1843 | Weybridge, VT

Mad Men

838 | Luoyang

Keep Your Enemies Closer

1878 | Bougival

Man’s Best Friend

1709 | London

That Whole River to Ourselves

c. 1840 | Mississippi River

No Rose Without a Thorn

1786 | Paris

Labor Union

1886 | London

Asking for a Friend

2021 | Chicago

Great Expectations

1831 | Beccles

Parting Words

1759 | Yorkshire

Cash Crop

1625 | London

Very Slender Differences

1758 | London

Invisible Thread

1840 | Paris

Direct Mail

1842 | Hoddesdon

Good Taste

c. 720 BC | Qi

Risky Business

c. 1905 | London

Party Host

2019 | Portland, OR

Potluck

1616 | London

Friends in High Places

1558 | Paris

Emotional Support

1872 | Downe

Job Interview

1674 | London

Ourselves Owning

1891 | Camden, NJ

Higher Love

1750 | London

Mutual Aid and Support

1902 | Bromley

Rare Commodity

c. 330 BC | Athens

Charts and Graphs

Objects of Affection

Pen Pals

Watering Holes

Tokens of Appreciation

Friend Commandments

Good While It Lasted

All in Your Head

Digital Get Down

The Lonely Generation

Contributors

Conversations

H.L. Mencken & r/Ask Reddit

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