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From Freud’s Couch to Emily Dickinson’s Only Surviving Dress: Annie Leibovitz Catalogs Meta-Cultural Iconography
From Freud’s Couch to Emily Dickinson’s Only Surviving Dress: Annie Leibovitz Catalogs Meta-Cultural Iconography

What Virginia Woolf’s writing table has to do with Darwin’s countryside cottage and Freud’s final couch.

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Balloons for Bhutan: Jonathan Harris Documents Happiness
Balloons for Bhutan: Jonathan Harris Documents Happiness

A portrait of happiness in the last Himalayan kingdom.

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Breathtaking Photographs of Sea Creatures by Mark Laita
Breathtaking Photographs of Sea Creatures by Mark Laita

From stunning stingrays to jubilant jellyfish, or what cutting-edge technology has to do with Earth’s whimsy.

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A Visual Ethnography of the World’s Last Nomadic Peoples
A Visual Ethnography of the World’s Last Nomadic Peoples

From Morocco to Mongolia, or what we can learn about climate change from Inuit whale hunters.

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The Disciples: James Mollison’s Portraits of Music Subcultures
The Disciples: James Mollison’s Portraits of Music Subcultures

From Madonna to Marilyn Manson, or how to worship at the secular altar of pop culture.

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Harris Tweed: The Story of the Greatest Cloth of All
Harris Tweed: The Story of the Greatest Cloth of All

What Scottish sheep have to do with timeless fashion and the humanity of craftsmanship.

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A Collection a Day: An Obsessive Homage to Order
A Collection a Day: An Obsessive Homage to Order

Why we’re drawn to things organized neatly, or what sea urchins have to do with vintage erasers.

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7 Must-Read Books on Time
7 Must-Read Books on Time

What the second law of thermodynamics has to do with Saint Augustine, landscape art, and graphic novels.

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Rare Images from the Golden Age of Circus, 1870-1950
Rare Images from the Golden Age of Circus, 1870-1950

From Ancient Egypt to Lady Gaga, or what P. T. Barnum has to do with Stanley Kubrick.

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s Turns 50: Celebrating Audrey Hepburn
Breakfast at Tiffany’s Turns 50: Celebrating Audrey Hepburn

One of Old Hollywood’s most charismatic personalities, captured through the affection lens of a dear friend.

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