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The Engineer’s Art

by Tom Conley
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?

Pandemic Nostalgia

by Dominic Boyer
Learning about longing from a seventeenth-century medical dissertation

Stuck Inside

by Amanda Anderson
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

Art in the Time of Corona

by Denise Gamon
Filmmaker and spring 2020 fellow Kevin Jerome Everson pushes on

Playing Guqin

by Carolyn Chen
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

Wish You Were Here!

by Liliane Weissberg
A brief history of the postal card

All Included

by Paul La Farge
New owners and old apparitions

Writing Generations

by Veronika Fuechtner
An interview with Thomas Mann's grandson Frido

The Miss April Houses

Fiction by Angela Flournoy
The method of remembrance by committee

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