• Style

    But Make It Fashion

    20 Famous Writers’ Sartorial Trademarks, Ranked

    By Emily Temple  April 23, 2021
    Reading Lists

    The Anxiety of Influence: On the Few Books I Was Able to Read While Writing My Own

    By Marcia Butler  April 1, 2021
    The Hub

    This bizarre reality television moment might as well be a scene in a Kafka novel.

    By Walker Caplan  March 12, 2021
    Fashion

    How Virginia Woolf’s Time-Traveling Androgynous Hero Became Shorthand for Fashion’s Genderless Future 

    By Sophie Wilson  March 9, 2021
    The Hub

    Take a look inside this rare, self-published Andy Warhol cookbook.

    By Walker Caplan  March 8, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Taking Fashion Seriously:
    A Critical Reading List

    By Francesca Granata  February 26, 2021
    Change Lab

    D’Wayne Edwards on Building a Pipeline for Diversity in Sneaker Design

    By Change Lab  February 17, 2021
    Fashion

    When Do Unspoken Social Rules Become Fashion Laws?

    By Richard Thompson Ford  February 10, 2021
    Women Writers

    Rooms of Their Own: Where Some of the Best Women Writers Created Art

    By Lauren Marino  February 4, 2021
    On Poetry

    The Unmade Edges of Language: On the Poetry of Alvin Feinman

    By James Geary  January 25, 2021
    Colonialism

    Defiant Style: A Story of African Women, in Photographs and Fashion

    By Catherine E. McKinley  January 20, 2021
    On Craft

    25 Essential Notes on Craft from Matthew Salesses

    By Matthew Salesses  January 19, 2021
    On Writing

    People Still Ask: How Do Writers Get Their Ideas?

    By Lore Segal  January 6, 2021
    Literary Theory

    What Happened in the 80s? On the Rise of Literary Theory in American Academia

    By H. Aram Veeser and Jane Gallop  December 23, 2020
    Philosophy

    How Come We Don’t Have a Philosophy of Wigs?

    By Luigi Amara  November 24, 2020
    Profiles

    Down the Wormhole with Jonathan Lethem: On Male Complicity and Publishing in a Pandemic

    By Brian Gresko  November 9, 2020
    Grooming

    Jerald Walker Gets a Bad Haircut… and It All Goes Downhill From There

    By Jerald Walker  November 5, 2020
    Architecture

    Inside the Spare and Extravagant Homes of Six Iconic Writers

    By Sam Lubell  October 28, 2020
    Children's Literature

    Recreating Scenes From the 20th Century’s Most Iconic Bedtime Story

    By Kate Bernheimer  October 27, 2020
    Nightlife

    The Center of the Universe? Capturing New York City 90s Nightlife

    By Gabriel Sanchez  October 20, 2020
    Singer Songwriters

    How Does the Great Dolly Parton Write a Song?

    By Lydia R. Hamessley  October 14, 2020
    The Hub

    Take a virtual tour through Ursula K. Le Guin’s gorgeous California home.

    By Aaron Robertson  September 3, 2020
    Consumerism

    Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism?

    By Jennifer Howard  September 2, 2020
    Black History

    The Trailblazing Black Models of Miss America

    By Margot Mifflin  August 6, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

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

    By Aaron Robertson  July 30, 2020
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