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Nobody Wins in the Age-Old Debate Over High Heels
Do They Convey Authority? Oppression? Frivolity? Confidence? Sex? Yes.
By
Summer Brennan
| March 14, 2019
In Search of the Surreal at the Leonora Carrington Museum
A Sculptor, Writer, and Feminist Pioneer Who Defied Categorization
By
Ruby Brunton
| January 29, 2019
How Zora Neale Hurston Helped Create the First Realistic Black Baby Doll
Writing Literary Classics
and
Advising American Toymakers
By
Emily Temple
| January 7, 2019
The Argument We Need for the Universal Wearing of Beards
Cutting Edge Victorian Tastemaker Thomas S. Gowing Says Let it Grow
By
Thomas S. Gowing
| January 3, 2019
15 Perfect Gifts for 15 Famous Writers
Just in Case One of These People is on Your List
By
Emily Temple
| December 19, 2018
When They Put Lauryn Hill on the Cover of
Time
On Evolving Standards of Black Beauty in the 1990s
By
Joan Morgan
| August 14, 2018
Best Reviewed
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Jo Weldon
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When Wilde Met Whitman
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Michèle Mendelssohn
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How Tango Rewired My Brain... and My Body
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Meghan Flaherty
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Galaxies Unto Themselves: Lorna Simpson's Collages of Black Women's Hair
"Black Women are the Shimmering Surface and the Power Beneath"
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Elizabeth Alexander
| June 6, 2018
Why Is Caring About Fashion Considered Unserious?
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madison moore
| April 19, 2018
When Vogue Went to Russia
Glossy Magazines and the Search for a New Normal in the Former Soviet Union.
By
Michael Idov
| February 21, 2018
Let's Talk About the Fantasy of the Writer's Lifestyle
The Undying Trope of Glamorous Decay is Basically an Anthropologie Catalog
By
Rosalie Knecht
| January 31, 2018
Enjoying the Fleeting Nature of Theater, in the Wake of Cancer
Dan O'Brien Reflects on the Dramaturgical Beat
By
Dan O'Brien
| January 24, 2018
The Secret Literary History of Some of Your Favorite Colors
Yellow Books, L. Frank Baum's Emerald, and The Color Purple
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Kassia St. Clair
| October 27, 2017
The Greatest Goths in Literary History
From Mary Shelley to Maurice Sendak
By
Emily Temple
| August 30, 2017
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