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We’re away until January 3, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2016. Enjoy your holiday! Judging by its austere style, this picture might have been taken by a member of the Crewe...
View ArticleThe Majesty of the Potato, and Other News
Charles Jones, Potato Majestic, nineteenth century. Image via the Clark Institute Oh, to own one of the first cameras—to approach photography without any preconception of what a photograph could or...
View ArticleRose Gold
“Rose Gold,” an exhibition of photographs and a film by Sara Cwynar, is at Foxy Production through May 14. Cwynar, who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, took the title of her show from Apple’s...
View ArticleYou Lost Your Glove, and Other News
I took the photo above outside The Paris Review’s offices in December 2014. I still think about it sometimes, mainly when I’m listening to Prince’s Batman soundtrack or zip-lining between New York...
View ArticleTo Have and Have Not
New letters shed light on Hemingway’s unrequited love and early life. Letters from 1918 written to Frances Coates, for whom Hemingway carried a torch. Next to the letters is Hemingway’s high school...
View ArticleSome Sort of Grace
Two films about queer love frame grief as both intimate and political. Kris Kovick, in a photo distributed with Silas Howard’s What I Love About Dying. When the photographer Peter Hujar died, in...
View ArticleFantasy Life: An Interview with Tabitha Soren
Tabitha Soren, Modesto Nuts bull pen, California, 2014. In 2003, Tabitha Soren went to the Oakland A’s spring training in Phoenix with her husband, Michael Lewis, who had just finished writing a book...
View ArticleYour Car Will Look Cooler in Forty Years, and Other News
Photo: Langdon Clay, via Hyperallergic I have car in New York now. The alternate-side parking, the potholes, the increasingly dimpled bumpers: it’s all worth it, because my car could be a celebrity...
View ArticleWhere I Live
“Where I Live,” an exhibition of photos by Tom Arndt, is at Howard Greenberg Gallery through July 7. Arndt, born in Minneapolis in 1944, took these pictures in 2015 and 2016, as he roamed the Twin...
View Article#ReadEverywhere Photo Contest
Two handsome reviews on the shores of Rydal Water, in the UK. Our dual-subscription deal with the London Review of Books is in its final days, but don’t worry—there’s still time to sign up! Act...
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