• Art and Photography

    Feature

    13 Photographs of Famous Writers With Their Fathers

    By Emily Temple  June 15, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Photographer Who Recorded Assad’s Torture

    By Garance Le Caisne  June 8, 2018
    Excerpts

    How LA Became a Destination on the Rare Book Trail

    By Victoria Dailey  June 8, 2018
    Excerpts

    On the Strange, Artistic World of Marfa, Texas

    By Lawrence Wright  May 14, 2018
    Feature

    22 Photos of Famous Authors and Their Moms

    By Emily Temple  May 11, 2018
    Deep Dive

    Seeking the Sublime in Sonic Youth

    By Zachary Pace  April 25, 2018
    Feature

    Garry Winogrand’s Photographs Contain Entire Novels

    By Geoff Dyer  April 25, 2018
    Essay

    Why Does Da Vinci’s Jesus Look So. . . Stoned?

    By Mike Lankford  April 20, 2018
    Feature

    Guess Which Kurt Vonnegut Tattoo is By Far the Most Common?

    By Emily Temple  April 11, 2018
    Art

    Lost in Berlin, and in the Wordless Writing of Mirtha Dermisache

    By J. Mae Barizo  March 23, 2018
    Essay

    The Agony and the Ecstasy of Taking Author Photos

    By Tom Rachman  March 19, 2018
    Feature

    Is It Worth 1,000 Words? Mark Sarvas on Writing Art in Fiction

    By Mark Sarvas  March 14, 2018
    Feature

    Photographing a New Era of American Leisure During the Vietnam War

    By Joel Meyerowitz  March 13, 2018
    Excerpts

    How Leo and Gertrude Stein Revolutionized the Art World

    By Miles J. Unger  March 12, 2018
    Feature

    Behind the Most Famous Photograph Ever Taken

    By Christopher Potter  February 26, 2018
    Feature

    Onfim Wuz Here: On the Unlikely Art of a Medieval Russian Boy

    By Justine E.H. Smith  February 26, 2018
    Feature

    20 Author Photos: Then and Now

    By Emily Temple  January 10, 2018
    Excerpts

    Life with a Legendary (and Eccentric) Cartoonist

    By Cullen Murphy  November 29, 2017
    Excerpts

    Tina Brown: How to Photograph the President of the United States

    By Tina Brown  November 22, 2017
    Excerpts

    Orhan Pamuk: Taking Photographs in Istanbul

    By Orhan Pamuk  November 14, 2017
    Feature

    9 Animals (And Unseen Gods) as Drawn by Dave Eggers

    By Dave Eggers  November 9, 2017
    Essay

    The Painting That Changed My Life

    By Kerry Folan  October 18, 2017
    Art

    Art Inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities

    By Emily Temple  October 13, 2017
    Biography

    The Man Who Dared Photograph the Dead

    By Peter Manseau  October 12, 2017
    Memoir

    Chance Encounters and Intimate Exchanges With Literary Icons

    By Jonas Mekas  October 6, 2017
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