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    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
    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
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