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May 14, 2023
He Called for His Mother
Mamie Till-Mobley was one of the first in a far-too-long line of Black mothers to seek justice for their sons.
Lottie Joiner
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March 4, 2023
Nan Goldin’s Life Between Art and Activism
The impact of her pioneering photography and her advocacy on behalf of those harmed by Purdue Pharma is chronicled in Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.
Barry Schwabsky
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February 20, 2023
Janet Malcolm, Reluctant Memoirist
Why was one of the most gifted nonfiction writers of her generation so uncomfortable writing about herself?
Vivian Gornick
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October 20, 2022
The Death Eaters: Covid in the Liberal Imagination
A call to rescue public health from the dead hand of neutrality.
Gregg Gonsalves
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August 31, 2022
The Secret Powers of William Klein
Using the street as his studio, he did more than just freeze a time and place in one frame. His photographs captured the world in motion.
Barry Schwabsky
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July 26, 2022
Letters From the August 8/15, 2022, Issue
Whole Earth generation… Maier and McCarthyism…
Our Readers
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June 7, 2022
The Second Destruction of a Black Community in Tulsa
In 1921, a mob of white citizens largely destroyed the Greenwood District. Five decades later, Donald Thompson rushed to photograph the community before urban renewal demolished it, again.
Karlos K. Hill
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May 30, 2022
The Art of Vivian Maier
Her photography made its subject everyday life, but her life makes us ask: Who gets to be an artist?
Sarah Jaffe
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April 29, 2022
Portrait of a Radical Swarm
From Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter, Accra Shepp’s protest photographs have dissolved the boundaries between the individual and the collective.
Salamishah Tillet
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October 19, 2021
Art at the Border of Power and Ecology
Miguel Fernández de Castro’s multimedia works reveal the ties between money, migration, and environmental disaster.
Max Pearl