The Engineer’s Art
by Tom Conley
Surveying the origins of the French cartographic imagination
Surveying the origins of the French cartographic imagination
The Flattening Kurve
by Wolf Schäfer
Why has Germany done so well in the fight against coronavirus?
Why has Germany done so well in the fight against coronavirus?
Pandemic Nostalgia
by Dominic Boyer
Learning about longing from a seventeenth-century medical dissertation
Learning about longing from a seventeenth-century medical dissertation
Stuck Inside
by Amanda Anderson
Rumination in the time of coronavirus
Rumination in the time of coronavirus
Spring 2020 Fellows Respond to Coronavirus
by Spring 2020 Fellows
Thoughts on the pandemic from the Wannsee and abroad
Thoughts on the pandemic from the Wannsee and abroad
Art in the Time of Corona
by Denise Gamon
Filmmaker and spring 2020 fellow Kevin Jerome Everson pushes on
Filmmaker and spring 2020 fellow Kevin Jerome Everson pushes on
Playing Guqin
by Carolyn Chen
Learning the instrument of philosophers and sages
Learning the instrument of philosophers and sages
Extracting Liberation
by Yvette Christiansë
Policing the oceans for slave ships and regulating the fate of the rescued
Policing the oceans for slave ships and regulating the fate of the rescued
Wish You Were Here!
by Liliane Weissberg
A brief history of the postal card
A brief history of the postal card
All Included
by Paul La Farge
New owners and old apparitions
New owners and old apparitions
Writing Generations
by Veronika Fuechtner
An interview with Thomas Mann's grandson Frido
An interview with Thomas Mann's grandson Frido
The Miss April Houses
Fiction by Angela Flournoy
The method of remembrance by committee
The method of remembrance by committee
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