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Along the Old Underground Railroad, One Photo at a Time

Along the Old Underground Railroad, One Photo at a Time

Jeanine Michna-Bales’s incredible nighttime images of the Underground Railroad

By Allison Wright | January 13, 2017

Fiction Inspired by Edward Hopper

Fiction Inspired by Edward Hopper

Read Lawrence Block's 'Autumn in the Automat'

By Lawrence Block | December 21, 2016

Art Inspired by the Great Angela Carter

Art Inspired by the Great Angela Carter

The Twisted Imagery of Gothic Mysticism

By Emily Temple | December 8, 2016

A Tour of Paris, 1917, With Blaise Cendrars

A Tour of Paris, 1917, With Blaise Cendrars

Phillipe Soupault's Memories of a Bohemian City

By Literary Hub | November 29, 2016

What Can Art Do After Trump?

What Can Art Do After Trump?

On Giving Feelings Shape, And Giving Them Grace

By Heather Wells Peterson | November 11, 2016

Picturing Frederick Douglass

Picturing Frederick Douglass

On the Portraits of the Most Photographed Man in the 19th Century

By James Sullivan | October 4, 2016

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Poetry is a Pipe: Selected Writings of René Magritte

By René Magritte | September 29, 2016

Classic Shirley Jackson, Illustrated

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We Went to the Moon and Brought Back These Cool Photos

We Went to the Moon and Brought Back These Cool Photos

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How One Woman Photographed Every Library in New York

How One Woman Photographed Every Library in New York

Elizabeth Felicella's Reading Room Reminds Us How Great Libraries Really Are

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Jeanette Winterson on Paris's Great Bookstore, Shakespeare and Company

Jeanette Winterson on Paris's Great Bookstore, Shakespeare and Company

A New History on One of the World's Great Bookshops

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The Art Scene Rebels of San Francisco

The Art Scene Rebels of San Francisco

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God, Guns, and Survival, Deep in the Heart of the Dust Bowl

God, Guns, and Survival, Deep in the Heart of the Dust Bowl

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By Rae Meadows | August 22, 2016

The Untold Story of a Legendary Diane Arbus Photograph

The Untold Story of a Legendary Diane Arbus Photograph

Brooks Wright's Random Encounter with a Nude Portrait of His Brother

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A Darke and Vicious Place: Conceptualizing the Vagina

A Darke and Vicious Place: Conceptualizing the Vagina

How Women’s Sex Organs Have Been Understood in Art and in History

By Fay Bound Alberti | July 25, 2016

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