Revisiting Robert Mapplethorpe’s Years on West Twenty-Third Street

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Christiane Bird on the Photographer’s Residence on a Changing Block

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The Fake Spiritualist Medium, the <em>Scientific American</em> Editor, and His Wife

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Sharon DeBartolo Carmack on a Real-Life Nightmare Alley

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Marcel Duchamp’s First Three Great Rejections

Marcel Duchamp’s First Three Great Rejections

Ruth Brandon on the Seismic Events in the Artist’s Young Life

By Ruth Brandon | March 2, 2022

On the Ukrainian Poets Who Lived and Died Under Soviet Suppression

On the Ukrainian Poets Who Lived and Died Under Soviet Suppression

Myroslav Laiuk Revisits an Empire That Executed Its Artists

By Myroslav Laiuk | March 1, 2022

Famous Yet Elusive: On Charles Dickens’s Unstable Reputation

Famous Yet Elusive: On Charles Dickens’s Unstable Reputation

“Even in photographs it looked as if his soul had been ‘pumped out of him.’’

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst | March 1, 2022

J.D. Dickey on the Tormented Rise of Abolition in Andrew Jackson’s America

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In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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Sarah Weinman on the Not-So-Unlikely Friendship Between Vladimir Nabokov and William F. Buckley, Jr.

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David Ulin on Joan Didion, California, Counterculture, and the Essay Form

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How Buster Keaton Became a Cinematic Superstar

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