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The Challenges of Placing Real Art in Fictional Stories

The Challenges of Placing Real Art in Fictional Stories

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Exclusive cover reveal: Elizabeth Strout’s <em>Lucy by the Sea</em>.

Exclusive cover reveal: Elizabeth Strout’s Lucy by the Sea.

By Literary Hub | March 22, 2022

The Essential Value—and Deep Cost—of Reporting From War

The Essential Value—and Deep Cost—of Reporting From War

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On Apocalypse Art, Climate Divination, and <em>The Blob</em>

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Molly Gallentine's Summer of Professionally Contemplating the End of Humanity

By Molly Gallentine | March 17, 2022

This artist creates sculptures of mundane objects using the pages of vintage books.

This artist creates sculptures of mundane objects using the pages of vintage books.

By Walker Caplan | March 16, 2022

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14 Contemporary Artists on How Reading Influences Their Work

“Words are what culled my inner artist from the dead.”

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

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Marcel Duchamp’s First Three Great Rejections

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