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Pictorial works

Teacher’s Pets

by Walter Potter,

From Walter Potter’s Curious World of Taxidermy,

The Vampire

by Lawrence Jackson,

The fickle career of Carl Van Vechten

Kennan Kvetches

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

Discussed in this essay: The Kennan Diaries, by George F. Kennan, edited by Frank Costigliola. W. W. Norton. 688 pages. $39.95. Pity the man’s poor wife. To peruse this generous selection from…

Untitled (Southwest)

by Cobi Moules,

Call Me Sometime

by Angela Dufresne,

“Untitled”

by Rinko Kawauchi,

Shanxi

by Xiaogang Zhang,

Heart Monitor (detail)

by Jennifer Wilkey,

Here There Is No Why

by J. Hoberman,

The trial of 12 Years a Slave

Mostpeople’s Poet

by Ruth Franklin,

Is E. E. Cummings a serious writer?

Untitled

by Tim Bower,