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How Zora Neale Hurston Helped Create the First Realistic Black Baby Doll

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

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

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 <em>Time</em>

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?

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

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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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?

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When Vogue Went to Russia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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