“The Culture of the Copy”: Victorians’ Obsession With Wax Flowers
Wax flowers were a major obsession of Victorian women, allowing them to combine art and industry.
The Art and Symbolism of Mourning
In the wake of the Orlando massacre, how do we as a nation use art to help with healing and mourning?
Tig Notaro, Annie Proulx, and More
Our Friday Reads rounds up five new books out this week, and links to related content you won't find anywhere else.
Fridolatry: Frida Kahlo and Material Culture
Frida hats, and packs, and slacks, oh my! Frida Kahlo used material culture to construct her identity—and material culture made her an icon in return.
A Bloomsday Remembrance of James Joyce
June 16th is Bloomsday, the day on which James Joyce's sprawling Modernist novel Ulysses takes place. Celebrate literature, Dublin, and, well, pubs!
The Deafening (((Echoes))) of Marked Language
What is marked language, and what does it have to do with the online hate speech of anti-semitic "Echoes" on Twitter?
Friday Reads in the Digital Library
Here is your Friday Five: Five new books out this week, and links to related content you won't find anywhere else. Ghanaian-American writer Yaa Gyasi’s firs
Cindy Sherman: Before the Selfie
Before cell phones and selfies, American artist Cindy Sherman influenced the world with her monumental and ongoing series of self-portraiture.
How Fashion Magazines Talked in the 1930s
The Splashy language of fashion magazines prompted one linguist to look closer at the over-the-top dialect in Vogue and Ladies’ Home Journal of the 30s