• Art and Photography

    Art History

    In Pursuit of the Elusive Spanish Forger

    By Lydia Pyne  October 28, 2019
    Spooooooooky

    10 of the Creepiest Author Photos Ever Captured

    By Emily Temple  October 25, 2019
    Art History

    On Discovering a Multimillion-Dollar Trove of Hitler’s Looted Art in a Munich Apartment

    By Mary M. Lane  October 25, 2019
    Celebrity Culture

    Take a look inside Rihanna’s new photo-biography.

    By Literary Hub  October 24, 2019
    Art

    The Life and Times of McDermott and McGough, True Artists of Downtown NYC

    By Peter McGough  October 21, 2019
    News and Culture

    A Household of Minor Things:
    The Collections of Robert Duncan and Jess

    By Tara McDowell  October 15, 2019
    Eve Babitz

    Eve Babitz on the Time She Played Chess Nude with Marcel Duchamp

    By Eve Babitz  October 9, 2019
    Literary History

    Why We Feel So Compelled to Make Maps of Fictional Worlds

    By Lev Grossman  October 2, 2019
    The Hub

    Head over to The Believer for their new interactive comic feature by artist Matt Huynh.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 1, 2019
    Books

    A Brief History of Personalized Bookplates

    By Princeton Architectural Press   September 27, 2019
    Time

    John Berger: Some Brief Musings on Time

    By John Berger  September 26, 2019
    Cartoons

    Misguided Chivalry, Disastrous Dates, and Other Cartoons

    By Liana Finck  September 24, 2019
    Art History

    On Eric Garner, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Police Brutality as American Tradition

    By J. Faith Almiron  September 13, 2019
    Smut I Say!

    When D.H. Lawrence’s “Unlovely” Paintings Were Confiscated by Scotland Yard

    By Emily Temple  September 12, 2019
    Math

    From the Ruins of Rome to the Invention of Perspective

    By Amir Alexander  September 10, 2019
    Legends

    On the Occasion of Margaret Atwood Day, Here Are Some Photos of Her Over the Years

    By Literary Hub  September 10, 2019
    Graphic Novels

    Graphic Novel: The True Story of Granny Lee Ok-sun

    By Keum Suk Gendry-Kim  September 9, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Designing Your Grandfather’s Book (When He’s James Thurber)

    By Sara T. Sauers  August 30, 2019
    The Hub

    Rachel Cusk’s house is an austere, experimental, hyper-modern masterpiece. (Shocking, right?)

    By Emily Temple  August 28, 2019
    Street Photography

    How Arthur Fellig Became the Legendary Street Photographer Weegee

    By Christopher Bonanos  August 23, 2019
    Art Criticism

    Dorothy Parker on the Art of Her Old Pal James Thurber

    By Dorothy Parker  August 22, 2019
    Art History

    At the Birth of Surrealism in Montparnasse, 1913

    By Sue Roe  August 20, 2019
    Counterculture

    Jim Marshall’s Iconic Photos from the 1969 Woodstock Festival

    By Michelle Margetts  August 15, 2019
    Marriage

    The Painter’s Wife vs. The Poet’s Husband: Portrait of a Marriage

    By Shawna Lemay  August 6, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    Toward a Theory of the New Weird

    By Elvia Wilk  August 5, 2019
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