Life

Life

On the Economy of the Dead

by John Berger,

From Left Curve: No. 31. Berger’s most recent work of fiction, From A to X, is out this month from Verso. His “Portrait of a Masked Man” appeared in the…

Programming the Post-Human

by Ellen Ullman,

Computer science redefines "life"

A second chance

by Lydia Davis,

The No-Futures Market

by Harper’s Staff,

From a series of “confidential case histories” of AIDS patients prepared in June by Life Partners, a Waco, Texas, company. The company acts as an agent for investors seeking to…

Campbell’s primordial soup

by Fred Schmugge,

Poem

by Theodore Enslin,

Death, with thanks

by Mark Huntington Wiseman,

Heaven and earth in jest

by Annie Dillard,

Comments on the human condition

by Eric Hoffer,

On the Economy of the Dead

Programming the Post-Human

A second chance

The No-Futures Market

Campbell’s primordial soup

Poem

Death, with thanks

Heaven and earth in jest

Comments on the human condition

The secret of life

The great deeps

Life

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On the Economy of the Dead

Programming the Post-Human

A second chance

The No-Futures Market

Campbell’s primordial soup

Poem

Death, with thanks

Heaven and earth in jest

Comments on the human condition

The secret of life

The great deeps