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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
Who Decides What's Tacky Anyway?
On Bad Taste and Leopard Print in the 1970s
By
Jo Weldon
| August 2, 2018
When Wilde Met Whitman
As He Told a Friend Years Later, "The Kiss of Walt Whitman is Still on My Lips"
By
Michèle Mendelssohn
| July 16, 2018
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How Tango Rewired My Brain... and My Body
By
Meghan Flaherty
| June 21, 2018
Galaxies Unto Themselves: Lorna Simpson's Collages of Black Women's Hair
By
Elizabeth Alexander
| June 6, 2018
Why Is Caring About Fashion Considered Unserious?
By
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
By
Kassia St. Clair
| October 27, 2017
The Greatest Goths in Literary History
From Mary Shelley to Maurice Sendak
By
Emily Temple
| August 30, 2017
Young, Gifted, and Black: On the Politicization of Nina Simone
Examining Lorraine Hansberry's Impact on an American Genius
By
Malik Gaines
| August 23, 2017
Andy Warhol's Superstars and the Invention of Downtown New York
On a Modern Master of Surfaces and the Entourage He Created
By
Victor P. Corona
| July 20, 2017
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