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Life in a Pandemic

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

By Aaron Robertson  July 30, 2020
Cultural Studies

Five Surprising Things I Learned from Partying with Rich People

By Ashley Mears  May 22, 2020
Cancer

On Embracing the Wig After a Cancer Diagnosis

By Mary Ladd  May 14, 2020
Fashion History

What’s the Point of
Wearing Clothes?

By Shahidha Bari  April 24, 2020
Performance

The Secret Language of
Make-Up

By Crystal Rasmussen and Tom Rasmussen  April 14, 2020
Fashion History

Betsey Johnson on the Eve of a Cotton Lycra Revolution

By Betsey Johnson and Mark Vitulano  April 10, 2020
Capitalism

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

By Susan McCarty  March 30, 2020
News and Culture

Sixteen in Queens and in Love With Lord Alfred Douglas

By Dylan Byron  March 3, 2020
Book Collection

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

By Nina Freudenberger and Sadie Stein  February 18, 2020
Archives

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

By Jenn Shapland  February 18, 2020
Beauty

Before Beauty Vlogging, There Were Renaissance
‘Books of Secrets’

By Meghan Racklin  January 15, 2020
Beauty

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

By Sam George-Allen  January 13, 2020
Writing Life

How to Throw a Shower for a Novel

By Caroline Louise Walker  November 27, 2019
Material History

The Outsize Impact of Textiles on World History

By Alanna Okun  November 27, 2019
Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview

Lit Hub’s Fall 2019 Nonfiction Preview: Social Science

By Literary Hub  August 21, 2019
The Hub

Want Hemingway’s Big Fish Energy? There’s a cap for that.

By Dan Sheehan  July 19, 2019
Trans Rights

An Oral History of the Landmark Magazine for Trans Men That Became a Movement

By Corinne Segal  May 30, 2019
The Hub

May we suggest not paying $99 for “authentic decorative books”?

By Jessie Gaynor  May 16, 2019
Excerpts

Nobody Wins in the Age-Old Debate Over High Heels

By Summer Brennan  March 14, 2019
Art

In Search of the Surreal at the Leonora Carrington Museum

By Ruby Brunton  January 29, 2019
Did you know?

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

By Emily Temple  January 7, 2019
Excerpts

The Argument We Need for the Universal Wearing of Beards

By Thomas S. Gowing  January 3, 2019
Feature

15 Perfect Gifts for 15 Famous Writers

By Emily Temple  December 19, 2018
News and Culture

When They Put Lauryn Hill on the Cover of Time

By Joan Morgan  August 14, 2018
Feature

Who Decides What’s Tacky Anyway?

By Jo Weldon  August 2, 2018
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