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

Hell Breaks Loose

Henry Freedland

The Loneliest of Species

Jay Griffiths

Government Work

Maddy Crowell

Map

Happy Places

Miscellany

Speak now or forever hold your hehes.

A typology of lol.

Collective happiness bark.

An equation for benevolence.

I’m Nobody!

Living in the now.

The smile report.

Plot twist.

Happiest place still on Earth.

Selling short.

A corrected world.

The sweet smell of success.

An acute case of Americanitis.

Fourteen days.

Somebody else’s lake.

Sip the sun slowly.

A happy old man.

The future is here.

The rod of punishment.

Misfortune favors the folded.

Voices In Time

Measure for Measure

c. 300 BC | Athens

This Land Is Her Land

390 BC | Athens

Paradise Lost

1851 | Frankfurt

Accounting for Taste

1817 | London

Looking Up

1876 | Laurel Springs, NJ

Prodigal Son

1919 | Winesburg, OH

Words to the Wise

1621 | Oxford

Code of Conduct

1735 | Philadelphia

Do Not Disturb

c. 400 | Chaisang

Face Value

1872 | Downe

World to Come

c. 1105 | Tus

Good News

c. 200 | Athens

Trumpery

1590 | Eseldorf

Pathetic Fallacy

1885 | Vilamorta

In a Perfect World

1953 | Anaheim, CA

Misery Loves Coventry

1759 | Abyssinia

True North

1795 | Copenhagen

Grace and Favor

1770 | Paris

We Happy Few

1898 | Bakumovka

Soul Asylum

58 | Rome

Goods and Services

c. 380 BC | Athens

Present Company Excluded

1823 | Paris

Charts and Graphs

Gardens of Earthly Delights

If You Want to Be Happy…

Happy Little Trees

Business and Pleasure

Happily Ever After

Divine Smiles

Counting Happiness

The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire

Ups and Downs

For Better or for Worse

Contributors

Conversations

Thomas More and Miya Tokumitsu

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