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“I Am in Control of My Self-Sabotage.

“I Am in Control of My Self-Sabotage." Or, Realistic Affirmations for Artists.

Josh Mecouch Takes an Honest Look at the Things We Tell Ourselves

By Josh Mecouch | April 29, 2021

Imagine your ideal artist’s retreat in this breathtakingly beautiful forest library.

Imagine your ideal artist’s retreat in this breathtakingly beautiful forest library.

By Walker Caplan | April 27, 2021

Saying the Unsaid: How Writing a Graphic Memoir Helped Dispel My Family’s Shame

Saying the Unsaid: How Writing a Graphic Memoir Helped Dispel My Family’s Shame

Margaret Kimball on Spilling Her Family’s Secrets, with Their Reluctant Cooperation

By Margaret Kimball | April 26, 2021

Chillnobyl: Throwing a Rave Deep in Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone

Chillnobyl: Throwing a Rave Deep in Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone

“When they closed the Zone it became a dead end. It’s good to see young people here!”

By Darmon Richter | April 23, 2021

Trevor Paglen on the Changing Meaning of Images Under the Pandemic

Trevor Paglen on the Changing Meaning of Images Under the Pandemic

In Conversation with Paul Holdengräber
on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | April 23, 2021

So is a Gnome a Fairy? Tony DiTerlizzi Has the Answer

So is a Gnome a Fairy? Tony DiTerlizzi Has the Answer

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | April 22, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • The Things We Never Say
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  • Ghost Stories: A Memoir
  • Look What You Made Me Do
  • Backtalker: An American Memoir
  • Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World

The University of Cape Town’s African Studies Library, ravaged by wildfire, needs your help.

By Walker Caplan | April 21, 2021

On Being an Outsider: Words by Charles Simic, Photos by Romeo Alaeff

By Romeo Alaeff and Charles Simic | April 20, 2021

A Witness to America: On the 1964 Frank O’Hara and Mario Schifano Creative Collaboration

By Vanessa Willoughby | April 20, 2021

I'm obsessed with Liu Ye's gorgeous, photorealistic paintings of books.

I'm obsessed with Liu Ye's gorgeous, photorealistic paintings of books.

By Emily Temple | April 13, 2021

Watch Kathy Acker read from <em>The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec</em>.

Watch Kathy Acker read from The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec.

By Walker Caplan | April 12, 2021

Look inside the only surviving copy of Joseph Pulitzer’s secret code book.

Look inside the only surviving copy of Joseph Pulitzer’s secret code book.

By Walker Caplan | April 9, 2021

How to Raise Your Children on the History of Protest

How to Raise Your Children on the History of Protest

From Nate Powell’s Graphic Novel, Save It For Later

By Nate Powell | April 9, 2021

How Dorothea Nutzhorn Chased the Promise of Possibility and Became Dorothea Lange

How Dorothea Nutzhorn Chased the Promise of Possibility and Became Dorothea Lange

Jasmin Darznik on the Beginnings of a Legendary Photographer

By Jasmin Darznik | April 9, 2021

On the Years When Jane Austen Couldn't Write

On the Years When Jane Austen Couldn't Write

An Illustrated Look at the Effects of Worry and Uncertainty on a Literary Icon

By Hannah K. Chapman, Lauren Burke, & Kaley Bales | April 8, 2021

How Leonora Carrington’s Self-Portrait Helped Me Tell Her Story

How Leonora Carrington’s Self-Portrait Helped Me Tell Her Story

Michaela Carter on the Mysteries of Writing Breakthroughs

By Michaela Carter | April 8, 2021

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