Essays Edited, Adapted, or Commissioned
Ross Bullen, “Jumbo’s Ghost: Elephants and Machines in Motion“
Andrew Spira, “Precedents of the Unprecedented: Black Squares Before Malevich“
James J. Conway, “Out on the Town: Magnus Hirschfeld and Berlin’s Third Sex“
Kenneth Gross, “Of Angel and Puppet: Klee, Rilke, and the Test of Innocence”
Laura Tradii, “Petrified Waters: The Artificial Grottoes of the Renaissance and Beyond”
Kensy Cooperrider, “Handy Mnemonics: The Five-Fingered Memory Machine”
Juliette Bretan, “Documenting Drugs: The Artful Intoxications of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz”
Peter Tracy, “Luigi Russolo’s Cacophonous Futures”
Alicia Puglionesi, “‘Pajamas from Spirit Land’: Searching for William James”
Susan Stewart, “A Paper Archaeology: Piranesi’s Ruinous Fantasias”
Erica X Eisen, “The Kept and the Killed”
Roddy Howland Jackson, “Beastly Clues: T. S. Eliot, Torquemada, and the Modernist Crossword”
Seán Williams, “Little Switzerlands: Alpine Kitsch in England”
Ross Bullen, “William Wells Brown, Wildcat Banker”
Vlad Solomon, “Laughter in the Time of Cholera”
Lauren Collee, “Marxist Astronomy: The Milky Way According to Anton Pannekoek”
Steven Connor, “The Dust That Measures All Our Time”
Vaughn Scribner, “Mermaids and Tritons in the Age of Reason”
Betsy Golden Kellem, “Circassian Beauty in the American Sideshow”
Lizzie Marx, “Picturing Scent: The Tale of a Beached Whale”
Alex Tadel, “Reading like a Roman: Vergilius Vaticanus and the Puzzle of Ancient Book Culture”
John Tresch, “Still Farther South: Poe and Pym‘s Suggestive Symmetries”
Karlos K. Hill, “Photographing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921”
Erika Vause, “The Art of Making Debts: Accounting for an Obsession in 19th-Century France”
Erica X Eisen, “‘The Mark of the Beast’: Georgian Britain’s Anti-Vaxxer Movement”
Matthew Beaumont, “‘Fevers of Curiosity’: Charles Baudelaire and the Convalescent Flâneur“
Laurel Waycott, “Propagating Propaganda: Franklin Barrett’s Red, White, and Blue Liberty Carp”