D. Graham Burnett

Cutting the World at Its Joints: An Interview with D. Graham Burnett
Comparative anatomy on trial
Issue 28 / Bones / Winter 2007–2008

Four Leaves from a Commonplace Book
Cut and paste
Issue 30 / The Underground / Summer 2008

Leftovers / The Orienting Stone
Listening to our inner pearl
Issue 31 / Shame / Fall 2008

Fire and Truth
Learning from spectroscopy
Issue 32 / Fire / Winter 2008–2009

Deception as a Way of Knowing: A Conversation with Anthony Grafton
The cops and robbers of history
Issue 33 / Deception / Spring 2009

Ingestion / The X Factor
Professor Pettenkofer’s miasmatic gamble
Issue 33 / Deception / Spring 2009

Games of Chance
Testing at the limits of the normal
Issue 34 / Testing / Summer 2009

Reading to the Endgame
A novel approach to computer chess
Issue 35 / Dust / Fall 2009

On the Misrecognition of Friends
The mytho-poetic birth of performance art
Issue 36 / Friendship / Winter 2009–2010

Two Bubbles, and a Third
All must inevitably burst
Issue 37 / Bubbles / Spring 2010

On the Monstrosity of Islands
Betrayal, solitude, madness, despair
Issue 38 / Islands / Summer 2010

Learning Degree Zero
How a sea slug revolutionized cognitive science
Issue 39 / Learning / Fall 2010

Facing the Unknown
History, art, loss, recovery
Issue 40 / Hair / Winter 2010–2011

The Singing of the Grid
Thoreau’s electro-Aeolian redeemer
Issue 41 / Infrastructure / Spring 2011

The Memory Hole Has Teeth
Toward a field guide to shred
Issue 42 / Forgetting / Summer 2011

November 10, 2011
Who is here in the house?
Issue 44 / 24 Hours / Winter 2011-2012

The Games Game Theorists Play
The unstable alliances of So Long, Sucker
Issue 45 / Games / Spring 2012

Hell Is a Funhouse Mirror
Dante’s Inferno and Dante’s Inferno
Issue 46 / Punishment / Summer 2012

Coming Full Circle
The Traveling Salesman Problem and the dream of optimality
Issue 47 / Logistics / Fall 2012

Black Glass
Eye, phone
Issue 48 / Trees / Winter 2012–2013

The Metachrotic Swan Song
The polychromatic radiance of the dying dolphinfish
Issue 49 / Death / Spring 2013

Relational Economics
Tabua and the question of currency
Issue 50 / Money / Summer 2013

A Wheel in a Wheel
Sprewells and the unleashing of blur
Issue 51 / Wheels / Fall 2013

Confetti Uncut
From phyllobolia to Carnevale
Issue 52 / Celebration / Winter 2013–2014

Ingestion / The Endoscopic Imagination
The eye inside
Issue 53 / Stones / Spring 2014

Tombstones and Toys
The artifact of the deal
Issue 54 / The Accident / Summer 2014

Platter of Love
Fruit of the womb
Issue 55 / Love / Fall 2014

On the Ball
A global roundtable
Issue 56 / Sports / Winter 2014-2015

The Bonds of Catastrophe
Betting on disaster
Issue 57 / Catastrophe / Spring 2015

Give and Take
The contingencies of trust
Issue 58 / Theft / Summer 2015

The Archive of Ice
Tracing climate change at the National Ice Core Laboratory
Issue 59 / The North / Fall 2015

Notes toward a History of Skywriting
A language of the air
Issue 60 / Containers / Winter 2015–2016

Leftovers / Vapor Trails
Clouds and conspiracies
Issue 61 / Calendars / Spring–Summer 2016

Spiders, Stars, and Death
Sighting through the crosshairs
Issue 62 / Milk / Fall 2016–Winter 2017

Reambiguation
What is a greeble?
Issue 63 / The Desert / Spring 2017

The Luminosity of the Nose
Edward Lear’s Dong and the limits of critical rationality
Issue 64 / The Nose / Summer 2017

The Beast in the Bestiary
Charles Waterton’s “Nondescript”
Issue 65 / Knowledge / Fall 2017–Winter 2018

Truth in the Skin, and Beyond
Walter G. Summers and the theology of polygraphy
Issue 66 / Spring 2018–Winter 2019