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The True True Detective, and Other News

Two covers from True Detective, a true-crime magazine. Image via io9“Several times the proper business of bed has been interrupted by mosquitoes,” Virginia Woolf wrote to a friend on her honeymoon with...

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Mourning the Striped Pig, and Other News

Time was you could find this fella on newsstands, getting sloshed.Fact: the American newspapers and gazettes of the nineteenth century had names that absolutely trounced their present-day counterparts...

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Ballet, Gravity

Still from “The Avant-Garde Diaries,” 2013, by Fridolin Schoepper.   Five years ago, I was mugged and beaten in Brooklyn after turning down a quiet street and passing a young couple idling in front of...

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Owning Brooklyn: An Interview with Naima Coster

Naima Coster   Naima Coster and I met in passing in college at Yale. We had people in common, but I knew her first onstage. I remember watching Naima perform on the step team: her long braid was like...

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A Darker Canvas: Tattoos and the Black Body

  One time in New Orleans, during an annual music festival organized by Essence magazine, a lady flagged me down from her car. I was walking through the French Quarter. The air was sufficiently...

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A Darker Canvas: Tattoos and the Black Body

We’re away until January 2, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2018. Enjoy your holiday! One time in New Orleans, during an annual music festival organized by Essence magazine, a lady...

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Dark Fashion

Darkness in fashion is seldom bland. Even where it fails, its objective is to make its mark, whether one of elegance or uniformity, modesty or dangerous seduction. Like red wine rather than white, it...

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The True True Detective, and Other News

Two covers from True Detective, a true-crime magazine. Image via io9 “Several times the proper business of bed has been interrupted by mosquitoes,” Virginia Woolf wrote to a friend on her honeymoon...

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Mourning the Striped Pig, and Other News

Time was you could find this fella on newsstands, getting sloshed. Fact: the American newspapers and gazettes of the nineteenth century had names that absolutely trounced their present-day counterparts...

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Ballet, Gravity

Still from “The Avant-Garde Diaries,” 2013, by Fridolin Schoepper.   Five years ago, I was mugged and beaten in Brooklyn after turning down a quiet street and passing a young couple idling in front of...

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Owning Brooklyn: An Interview with Naima Coster

Naima Coster   Naima Coster and I met in passing in college at Yale. We had people in common, but I knew her first onstage. I remember watching Naima perform on the step team: her long braid was like...

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A Darker Canvas: Tattoos and the Black Body

  One time in New Orleans, during an annual music festival organized by Essence magazine, a lady flagged me down from her car. I was walking through the French Quarter. The air was sufficiently...

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Image may be NSFW.
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A Darker Canvas: Tattoos and the Black Body

We’re away until January 2, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2018. Enjoy your holiday! One time in New Orleans, during an annual music festival organized by Essence magazine, a lady...

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Image may be NSFW.
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Dark Fashion

Darkness in fashion is seldom bland. Even where it fails, its objective is to make its mark, whether one of elegance or uniformity, modesty or dangerous seduction. Like red wine rather than white, it...

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