The Editors

Dear Reader, Last December when we announced a new Editor-in-Chief, we also announced that instead of publishing Symposeum quarterly, we would publish twice a year: in the summer and in the winter. We would still experiment with form, explore new themes, and curate content

Dear Reader, T he theme for this issue was chosen nearly half a year ago, before the delta variant, the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and other unpredictable events. We are left searching now even more than we were then: for the right thing

Series of paintings for Symposeum |  In her series of paintings composed specifically for Symposeum, Lucy Villeneuve evokes a sense of self-discovery in the act of searching. Cartoons on Searching | New Yorker cartoonist Brooke Bourgeois finds inspiration at the intersection of unlikely themes. Scenes from

Dear Reader, O ne hundred and eighty-one years ago this summer season, in his inaugural Editorial Introduction to The Dial, Ralph Waldo Emerson outlined the publication's aims (which have inspired ours) “to draw thoughts and feelings which, being alive, can impart life.” It was