• Style

    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
    Biography

    When Wilde Met Whitman

    By Michèle Mendelssohn  July 16, 2018
    Excerpts

    How Tango Rewired My Brain… and My Body

    By Meghan Flaherty  June 21, 2018
    Feature

    Galaxies Unto Themselves: Lorna Simpson’s Collages of Black Women’s Hair

    By Elizabeth Alexander  June 6, 2018
    Excerpts

    Why Is Caring About Fashion Considered Unserious?

    By madison moore  April 19, 2018
    Excerpts

    When Vogue Went to Russia

    By Michael Idov  February 21, 2018
    Essay

    Let’s Talk About the Fantasy of the Writer’s Lifestyle

    By Rosalie Knecht  January 31, 2018
    Essay

    Enjoying the Fleeting Nature of Theater, in the Wake of Cancer

    By Dan O'Brien  January 24, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Secret Literary History of Some of Your Favorite Colors

    By Kassia St. Clair  October 27, 2017
    Listicle

    The Greatest Goths in Literary History

    By Emily Temple  August 30, 2017
    Excerpts

    Young, Gifted, and Black: On the Politicization of Nina Simone

    By Malik Gaines  August 23, 2017
    Memoir

    Andy Warhol’s Superstars and the Invention of Downtown New York

    By Victor P. Corona  July 20, 2017
    News and Culture

    Celebrities: They’re Not Just Like Us

    By Emily Harnett  July 19, 2017
    Design

    Nancy Mitford, Inventor of Eccentric English Style

    By Terry Newman  June 19, 2017
    Personal Essay

    New Clothes Won’t Fix You (and Will Likely Cause Shame and Discomfort)

    By Scaachi Koul  May 1, 2017
    History

    One American’s 44-Year Battle to Rebuild Shakespeare’s Theater

    By Dominic Dromgoole  April 21, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Discovering the Power of Storytelling in a Tattered Old Pulp Paperback

    By Edie Meidav  April 11, 2017
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