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01/26/2023

more than a door

Greatest hits albums, second looks, kissing cousins, and some Sam Cooke

by Colin Fleming

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09/29/2022

An Ode to Perfume Strips

Makeshift bookmarks and olfactory association

by Rhoda Feng

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09/12/2019

Meeting all the Criterion

What The Criterion Collection means to film fans

by Matt Hanson

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12/21/2018

Out of Thin Hair

An interview with writer and historian, Robert McCracken Peck

by Melinda Lewis

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11/08/2018

A Not-So-Curious Fascination

On bibliophilism

by John Capista

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10/19/2017

The Allure of the Egg

An excerpt from Birdmania

by Bernd Brunner

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03/27/2017

The Whitney Biennial of 2017

A review

by Charles Molesworth

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09/03/2013

Card Stock

The artistry of baseball cards

by Colin Fleming

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10/14/2011

Taking up a Collection

Flea-market finds

by Jessa Crispin

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11/19/2010

The New Memory Theater

Forget what constitutes a ''book.'' What will be the new ''bookshelf?''

by Nathan Schneider

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