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Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism?

Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism?

Jennifer Howard on How We Came to Strive for Material Excess

By Jennifer Howard | September 2, 2020

The Trailblazing Black Models of Miss America

The Trailblazing Black Models of Miss America

Margot Mifflin on Lencola Sullivan and the Racism of Beauty Pageants

By Margot Mifflin | August 6, 2020

Here's a novel idea: masks made of books.

Here's a novel idea: masks made of books.

By Aaron Robertson | July 30, 2020

Five Surprising Things I Learned from Partying with Rich People

Five Surprising Things I Learned from Partying with Rich People

Sociologist Ashley Mears on Extravagant Wealth

By Ashley Mears | May 22, 2020

On Embracing the Wig After a Cancer Diagnosis

On Embracing the Wig After a Cancer Diagnosis

Mary Ladd Finds Small Pleasures in an Altered Reality

By Mary Ladd | May 14, 2020

What's the Point of <br>Wearing Clothes?

What's the Point of
Wearing Clothes?

Shahidha Bari on the Pleasures and Politics of What We Wear

By Shahidha Bari | April 24, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

The Secret Language of
Make-Up

By Crystal Rasmussen and Tom Rasmussen | April 14, 2020

Betsey Johnson on the Eve of a Cotton Lycra Revolution

By Betsey Johnson and Mark Vitulano | April 10, 2020

A Brief History of the Acceptable High School T-Shirts of the Late 1980s

By Susan McCarty | March 30, 2020

Sixteen in Queens and in Love With Lord Alfred Douglas

Sixteen in Queens and in Love With Lord Alfred Douglas

Dylan Byron on the Self-Discovery of Early Literary Love

By Dylan Byron | March 3, 2020

Inside the ‘Vibrant Intellectual Ecosystem’ of Larry McMurtry's Home Library

Inside the ‘Vibrant Intellectual Ecosystem’ of Larry McMurtry's Home Library

McMurtry on the Few Books He Would Never Give Up

By Nina Freudenberger and Sadie Stein | February 18, 2020

Cataloguing Carson McCullers' Clothes: Long Coats, Vests, and Gender Fluidity

Cataloguing Carson McCullers' Clothes: Long Coats, Vests, and Gender Fluidity

Jenn Shapland on What She Found in the Writer's Archives

By Jenn Shapland | February 18, 2020

Before Beauty Vlogging, There Were Renaissance<br> 'Books of Secrets'

Before Beauty Vlogging, There Were Renaissance
'Books of Secrets'

Meghan Racklin on the History and Alchemy of Self-Care

By Meghan Racklin | January 15, 2020

Where the Male Gaze Doesn't Go: On YouTube's Universe of Make-Up Tutorials

Where the Male Gaze Doesn't Go: On YouTube's Universe of Make-Up Tutorials

Sam George-Allen on the Politics and Empowerment of Online Cosmetics

By Sam George-Allen | January 13, 2020

How to Throw a Shower for a Novel

How to Throw a Shower for a Novel

Caroline Louise Walker on Celebrating a Very Important New Arrival

By Caroline Louise Walker | November 27, 2019

The Outsize Impact of Textiles on World History

The Outsize Impact of Textiles on World History

Alanna Okun on Kassia St. Clair's History of Fabric

By Alanna Okun | November 27, 2019

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