Our most forward-looking issue features prophecies, oracles, utopias, dystopias, new technologies, and new worlds.

From sumptuous banquets to our daily bread, a look at what we eat, how we eat, and who's at our table.

Our spring issue flexes its muscles to bring you history's greatest writing from the factory and cubicle.

The famous, the infamous, and the wannabes populate our issue on celebrity, as fame comes to those who want it the most, and those who don't want it at all.

As the world’s population grows increasingly urban, we look back at history's greatest cities, from the modern metropolis to the ancient polis.

Our issue on human play chronicles the thrills of victory, the agonies of defeat, and the luck that makes all the difference.

Both the ancient street poet and the New York beat poet knew the artistic life lies somewhere between making art, getting paid, and satisfying the muse.

God, gods, and the people who love them populate our issue on religion’from ancient oracles to modern scientists still full of questions.

Sickness and cure, monstrous procedures, and miracles of modern science await centuries of patients who just want to be well again.

From armchair travelers to those journeying to the ends of the earth, this issue follows the brave explorers who’ve charted a course to worlds unknown.

In the criminal justice system, heinous offenses have been committed throughout history. From ancient lawbreakers to modern prison inmates, these are their stories.

Love, sex, and all of its joys and discontents ravage this issue, as even the strongest in history succumb to the siren’s song.

Students, teachers, and the quest for knowledge fill this issue’be it in the school of hard knocks or the school of Athens.

Forests, oceans, and deserts are all touched by the human footprint when the urban jungle meets the natural world.

The cash flow of the emperors of Rome and Wall Street remind us that whether we like it or not, money makes the world go round.

Our first issue, and forever topical, in which we catalog 4,000 years of armed conflict.