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The Sitwell Inheritance

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For months Denise Kelly, a general books specialist and valuer with the British auction house, Dreweatts, has been listening to the ghosts of the Roaring Twenties. “I have a diary of Sacheverell Sitwell, and everyone is in it, everyone,” she says. “There isn’t a line where there isn’t a reference to a Virginia Woolf or […]

Soviet Inc.

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The soft-pastel dust jackets of FUEL’s Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia are a jarring counterpoint to the archive’s violent and profane drawings. Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell relish such juxtapositions. “People normally think of graphic design as communication, for the purposes of direct messaging,” says Murray, who in 1992 co-founded the London-based graphic design and publishing […]

Locked

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Cara found an apartment near Tildy’s school where they could stay until the holidays. The apartment was walking distance to the school but of course neither Tildy nor her classmates had been to the school, not since the previous March. The apartment was a small, dark garden level railroad, but the block was peaceful and […]

The Lost Boy

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All day the boats look, but the search turns upnothing. That night we sit on the front porch awhile haloed by citronella candles as a lone truckcombs the lamp-lit streets, spraying for mosquitos. A three-legged dog you tell meis named Lucky roams past, sniffing the jasmine before continuing his patrol.How can she bear it, the […]

Reading Natural History in the Winter

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“California was full of plants colonized from around the globe: fresh and frilly with eucalyptus and bottlebrush from Australia, spiky with South American ice plants along the coast. But I missed the flowers I’d known the names of as a child the way I missed old friends: crocus, lilac, peony.”

Bloom and Fade

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In a reissue of his 1983 book, the great street photographer Joel Meyerowitz captures a New York City simultaneously familiar and lost to time.