Books
Picturing America's Weirdest Laws by Breaking Them
In photos that range from silly to unsettling, looking at the US's oddest, most surprising, least sensible — and sometimes outright fake — laws.
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Tracing Beatrix Potter's Artistic Evolution, from Fungi to Peter Rabbit
A new book chronicles Potter's evolution from a precocious naturalist to an expert artist with a scientific eye to a wildly successful author of children's books.
Interview
On Photographing Drag Queens in Their Wonderland
Growing up in London, photographer Magnus Hastings was an "all-singing, all-dancing child," as he puts it, who loved to wear his sister's clothes.
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After 25 Years, an Influential Epistolary Novel Series Mails Its Last Letter
Griffin Moss, a lonely painter in London, and his mysterious muse Sabine Strohem were first introduced in the 1991 best-seller Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence, an epistolary novel composed of extensively illustrated postcards and removable handwritten letters by author and artist