• Art and Photography

    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
    Excerpts

    On Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie, Queen of the Bohemian Artists

    By Donna Seaman  April 14, 2017
    History

    20 Rare Photographs of Allen Ginsberg

    By Emily Temple  April 5, 2017
    Art

    50 Fascinating Works of Angela Carter Fan Art

    By Emily Temple  March 30, 2017
    Criticism

    Camille Paglia on the Iconic Cover of Patti Smith’s Horses

    By Camille Paglia  March 22, 2017
    What to Read

    10 Photographers on the Books and Movies That Inspire Them

    By Rachel Cobb  March 15, 2017
    Lit Mags

    Secrets of the Designers: On Creating the Look for a Literary Journal

    By Literary Hub  March 13, 2017
    History

    Behind One of the Most Famous Faces in Art

    By Laurie Lico Albanese  February 24, 2017
    Excerpts

    How Paul Cézanne Taught Émile Zola to Look with a Painter’s Eye

    By Anka Muhlstein  February 16, 2017
    Feature

    An Incomplete List of Virginia Woolf Puns in Pop Culture

    By Emily Temple  January 25, 2017
    Photography

    Along the Old Underground Railroad, One Photo at a Time

    By Allison Wright  January 13, 2017
    Feature

    Fiction Inspired by Edward Hopper

    By Lawrence Block  December 21, 2016
    Art

    Art Inspired by the Great Angela Carter

    By Emily Temple  December 8, 2016
    Excerpts

    A Tour of Paris, 1917, With Blaise Cendrars

    By Literary Hub  November 29, 2016
    Essay

    What Can Art Do After Trump?

    By Heather Wells Peterson  November 11, 2016
    Did you know?

    Picturing Frederick Douglass

    By James Sullivan  October 4, 2016
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