Graffiti Gentrification: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore on the Exploitation of Basquiat

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Considering Boom for Real: The Late-Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat While Walking Through Baltimore

By Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | November 30, 2023

Dissenting in Style: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Collars Became Political Signifiers

Dissenting in Style: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Collars Became Political Signifiers

Elinor Carucci and Sara Bader on RBG's Decision to Buck the Supreme Court's Sartorial Traditions

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Dwight Garner on the Long History of Writers and America's Greatest Invention, the Martini

Dwight Garner on the Long History of Writers and America's Greatest Invention, the Martini

A Look at Patricia Highsmith, Norman Mailer, Gary Shteyngart, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and More

By Dwight Garner | October 25, 2023

How the Humble Pocket Came to Signify Feminist Liberation

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Hannah Carlson Explores the History of Women's Pockets

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How Oscar Wilde Created a Queer, Mysterious Symbol in Green Carnations

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Tara Isabella Burton on One of Literature’s Great Trendsetters

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