All Aboard for Virtual Utopia?

William Hasselberger

Augmented Reality doesn’t just add things to our perceptual experience; it redirects our attention.

The Man Who Was Not There

Ohad Reiss-Sorokin

The actual exchange between Oppenheimer and Einstein was far less cordial than the film’s version.

Space Travel and the Cold War Fantastic

Isaac Ariail Reed

Robert Sheckley absorbed Freud and worried about modernity as the unleashing of fantasies old and new.

A Cosmopolitan Revelation

Anne Taylor

Rick Steves teaches travel as a kind of road to civic transformation.

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The Varieties of Travel Experience

What is it that we want—what do we expect—from travel?


Of Continuing Interest

A selection of articles from the archives

Desperately Seeking Mothman

Tara Isabella Burton

At their core, cryptids represent the triumph of the particular over the generic.

What Is It Like to Be a Man?

Phil Christman

What is this thing we’re trying to be?

No Ordinary Place

Clare Coffey

For some friends of the library, no defense of the stacks is necessary.

Gnosticism in Modernity, or Why History Refuses to End

Isaac Ariail Reed and Michael Weinman

Contending with a radical distrust of the created world.