A Dance to the Music of Time, by Nicolas Poussin, c. 1635.

A Dance to the Music of Time, by Nicolas Poussin, c. 1635. Wallace Collection, London.

Time

Volume VII, Number 4 | fall 2014

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Preamble

Captain Clock

By Lewis H. Lapham

From overtime to downtime, spending time to saving time, the uses and abuses of our minutes and days.

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Painting of a man in an office looking out of the window.

Strange Days

By Sven Birkerts

During convalescence it grows hard to tell the difference between when to pass the time and when to allow time to pass through.

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An infographic showing a map of deep space and deep time.

Map

Marking Time

A journey into deep space and deep time.

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Miscellany

The Ongee of the Andaman Islands base their calendar on smell: their names for seasons derive from the flowers that are in bloom at the time.

2006 | New Jersey

Not a Millisecond to Spare

Michael Lewis times the trades using the latest technology.More

1966 | Australia

Now or Never

Time is running out, and time is close at hand.More

c. 524 | Pavia

Infinite Path

God abides for ever in an eternal present.More

Charts & Graphs

List of the longest filibusters in the U.S. Senate

Last Stands

Epic filibusters in the U.S. Senate.

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Photograph of Andrei Tarkovsky

Black and white photograph of a young Marshall McLuhan with a think mustache.

Black-and-white photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. with his right hand lifted

Jules Verne

Black and white photograph of E. C. Osondu.

Photograph of Colin Dickey standing in front of a brick wall.

Photograph of Rachel Carson

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.

—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC

Classical bust of Thucydides.

Portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville wearing a black suit and standing in front of a chair.

Thucydides & Alexis de Tocqueville

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