Summer 2017

Columns

Leftovers / Up, Up, and Around

Joshua BauchnerThe impersonal pleasures of the paternoster elevator

Brian DillonLearning sympathy from George Eliot

David B. GoldsteinA table set, a wild animal, and us, invisible

Courtney Stephens and Pacho VelezThe fragmentary presence of the Berlin Wall in the United States

Jacob MikanowskiThe undecipherable rongorongo script of Easter Island

William GermanoBringing the eye chart into focus

Julian LucasA philosophy of “permadeath” in the multiuser dungeon

Justin E. H. SmithThe birch bark drawings of a thirteenth-century Slavonic schoolboy

Avinoam ShalemA vertical history of places and things

Justin PatchPlaying to the crowd on the presidential campaign trail

Elaine AyersJoseph Arnold and the discovery of the corpse flower

Christopher TurnerThe battle of the “smellies” 

D. Graham BurnettEdward Lear’s Dong and the limits of critical rationality

This makes scents

Inquiring minds want to nose

CabinetIn the nooks and crannies