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Readings — From the December 2007 issue
Readings — From the January 2006 issue
Readings — From the November 1998 issue
Brief reviews — From the November 1983 issue
illustration — From the November 1983 issue
Fiction — From the August 1983 issue
Palpitations — From the March 1983 issue
The subject is Africa and William Boyd writes about it like Evelyn Waugh, only nicer
Brief reviews — From the December 1982 issue
Brief reviews — From the November 1982 issue
Article — From the April 1952 issue
Article — From the March 1918 issue
Editor's drawer — From the October 1917 issue
Editor's study — From the November 1907 issue
Editor's study — From the October 1897 issue
Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way:
Jeffrey Lockwood, University of Wyoming (Laramie)/American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.C.)
A Singaporean company unveiled Kissenger, a pair of plastic lips mounted on a large plastic egg, which transmits real-time interactive kisses to a distant lover. “I am not interested in the sexual uses for it,” said the device’s inventor. “We’ve taken several steps to minimize the creepiness.”
The practice of sexualized eyeball licking was causing conjunctivitis in Japanese sixth graders.
