Cover Story
Saving the Self in the Age of the Selfie
We must learn to humanize digital life as actively as we’ve digitized human life—here’s how
by James McWilliams
Articles
Common Sense
It’s time for police officers to start demanding gun laws that could end up saving their own lives
by Robert Wilson
A New Heaven and a New Earth
During the Spanish Civil War, an alternative vision of society briefly flourished in Barcelona
by Adam Hochschild
I Will Love You in the Summertime
Between the rupture of life and the rapture of language lies a world of awe and witness
by Christian Wiman
Meditation on a Rat
Who would have thought that this unlikely creature could help make a family whole again?
by Lucy Ferriss
Departments
Editor's Note
Letter From …
Tuning Up
Arts
Poetry
Works in Progress
Back Talk
Fiction
Commonplace Book
Book Essay
Book Reviews
Lives of the Philosophers
The postwar thinkers who stripped the world of preconceptions
Amanda Vaill
The Pursuit of Middle Heaven
Missives about sex, love, and the value of really good talk
George O’Brien
The Spirit of May 35th
A tale of dissidence, exile, astrophysics, and puckish wit
