The Sneaky Sublime
The Chicago artist Christina Ramberg recontextualized things built for another purpose, transforming the unremarkable into funny, stately, and transgressive forms.
August 15, 2024 issue
In Search of the Real Hannah Crafts
The Bondwoman’s Narrative is thought to be the first novel by a Black woman to describe slavery from the inside, but only recently have scholars discovered her true identity.
August 15, 2024 issue
Crossing to Safety
Diana Nyad has an astonishing ability to do unfathomably difficult, even terrifying athletic feats, and, like many athletes, she did them in the aftermath of abuse.
August 15, 2024 issue
All the News That’s Fit to Feel
Amy Chozick’s accounts of her time covering Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign for The New York Times seem to exalt the work of the new girl reporters, who bring their “whole selves” to the story. But is such an emphasis on the chroniclers themselves not a return to the lifestyle precincts of the old “women’s pages”?
August 15, 2024 issue
A Sternly Witty Sensualist
Karl Lagerfeld used reference and precise technique to elevate decoration to the level of a principle.
August 15, 2024 issue
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