Camera Orientalis: Reflections on Photography of the Middle East
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In the decades after its invention in 1839, photography was inextricably linked to the Middle East....
Substance of Shadow: A Darkening Trope in Poetic History
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John Hollander, poet and scholar, was a master whose work joined luminous learning and imaginative...
The Art Rules: Wisdom and Guidance from Art World Experts
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A well-known advocate and proponent of art in Chicago, Paul Klein is a long-time gallerist whose...
The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty
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"The Invisible Dragon" made a lot of noise for a little book. When it was originally published in...
Willem de Kooning Nonstop: Cherchez la Femme
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In the early 1950s, Willem de Kooning's Woman I and subsequent paintings established him as a...
Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times
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In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, pianist Randy Weston and bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik celebrated with...
Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll
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In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll created fantastic...
Athene Palace: Hitler's New Order Comes to Rumania
R.G. Waldeck and Robert D. Kaplan
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On the day that Paris fell to the Nazis, R. G. Waldeck was checking into the swankiest hotel in...
A Place for Us: West Side Story and New York
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From its Broadway debut to the Oscar-winning film to countless amateur productions, West Side Story...
American Guides: The Federal Writers' Project and the Casting of American Culture
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In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate--and they were...