The Goddess Complex
A set of revered stone deities was stolen from a temple in northwestern India; their story can tell us much about our current reckoning with antiquities trafficking
By Elizabeth Kadetsky
The Goddess Complex
A set of revered stone deities was stolen from a temple in northwestern India; their story can tell us much about our current reckoning with antiquities trafficking
By Elizabeth Kadetsky
ARTICLES
The Sound of Wood and Steel
A new exhibition explores the guitar’s power and influence in American art and life
By Steve Yarbrough
Look Back in Wonder
A father searches for the secret to empathy in the face of unthinkable loss
By David McGlynn
The World at the End of a Line
The grandson of one of American literature’s Lost Generation novelists reflects on his namesake’s love of the sea
By John Dos Passos Coggin
The Pain Principle
What if the animal rights movement abandoned its focus on suffering and appealed to a different set of human emotions?
By Matthew Denton-Edmundson
Phantoms
What it’s like to navigate the world when your senses conjure up phenomena that others can’t perceive
By Caitriona Lally
I’ll Be Seeing You
The search for traces of a beloved writer led to an uncertain pilgrimage—and a friendship that endured over distance and time
By Patricia Hampl
The Sound of Wood and Steel
A new exhibition explores the guitar’s power and influence in American art and life
By Steve Yarbrough
Look Back in Wonder
A father searches for the secret to empathy in the face of unthinkable loss
By David McGlynn
The World at the End of a Line
The grandson of one of American literature’s Lost Generation novelists reflects on his namesake’s love of the sea
By John Dos Passos Coggin
The Pain Principle
What if the animal rights movement abandoned its focus on suffering and appealed to a different set of human emotions?
By Matthew Denton-Edmundson
Phantoms
What it’s like to navigate the world when your senses conjure up phenomena that others can’t perceive
By Caitriona Lally
I’ll Be Seeing You
The search for traces of a beloved writer led to an uncertain pilgrimage—and a friendship that endured over distance and time
By Patricia Hampl
DEPARTMENTS
editor's note
tuning up
Knowledge Before the Fall
Sometimes you simply can’t prepare for a seemingly inevitable outcome
By Clellan Coe
The Lotus Position
What does one of television’s biggest hits have to say about the nature of a certain kind of American tourism?
By Sharon Sochil Washington
poetry
anniversaries
fiction
Under Covers
“This is the story Lulu told me when I was little, since before my mom died. There’s a man. He’s very sick. ... When girls misbehave, when they don’t do as they’re told, that man comes and takes them.”
By Alejandro Puyana
commonplace book
book reviews
