• Art and Photography

    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
    Excerpts

    The Most Important Skill I Learned at Art School: How to Bullshit

    By Chelsea Martin  September 5, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Photograph That Helped Me Finish My Book

    By Laura Schenone  August 30, 2017
    Photography

    Gene Smith’s Documentary Obsessions

    By Sam Stephenson  August 23, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Whose Idea of America? Rauschenberg, Whitman, or Trump?

    By Geoffrey Hilsabeck  August 15, 2017
    Archives

    Nature is a Wizard: Thoreau’s Observations on Animals, Illustrated

    By Henry David Thoreau  July 12, 2017
    Music

    Rare Images from the Birth Of Punk

    By Lit Hub Photography  May 19, 2017
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