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Anne Carson on Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy

Anne Carson on Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy

"They had the same power—to stick in the throat of Desire."

By Sarah Moore | May 4, 2020

The Writers Vincent van Gogh Loved, From Charles Dickens to Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Writers Vincent van Gogh Loved, From Charles Dickens to Harriet Beecher Stowe

6 Books Essential to Our Understanding of the Artist

By Mariella Guzzoni | May 4, 2020

At a Fabled Artist's Colony, Ruth Asawa Found Her Voice

At a Fabled Artist's Colony, Ruth Asawa Found Her Voice

On the Sculptor's Time at Black Mountain College

By Marilyn Chase | May 4, 2020

The Long Fight to Decolonize Book Research

The Long Fight to Decolonize Book Research

Kristen Millares Young on Learning from Makah Tradition

By Kristen Millares Young | May 4, 2020

Cassandra Austen: Literary Arsonist, or a Heroine in Her Own Right?

Cassandra Austen: Literary Arsonist, or a Heroine in Her Own Right?

Gill Hornby on the Lesser Known Austen Sister

By Gill Hornby | May 1, 2020

How Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag Looked at Photos<br> of Violence

How Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag Looked at Photos
of Violence

On Photography and Complicity

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Syria's Doomed Struggle for Independence After WWI

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The Decade John Berger Became an Art World Revolutionary

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