Photo by Anne Miek

Seaport—On a still semi-chilly day in February, at McNally Jackson's Seaport outpost, Dalya Benor brought her project, The Pleasure Lists, into the incandescent glow of the...
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Text by Cici Thompson

Portrait of a young woman in white #2 by Jacques-Louis David, used for a cover for Ottessa Moshfegh's book MY Year of Rest and Relaxation.

MILAN—Fashion and literature have always shared a fascination with surface and depth. Baudelaire, Wilde, Capote, catalogued fashion details obsessively in their writings, and used clothes...
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Text by Marguerite de Ponty

Photo by Lena Be

Why did I go out onto the balcony? The waves. That’s why. They were massive. Massive and black and smashing into the side of the...
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Text by Rupert Taylor

A cultural milieu is difficult to change—it exists across and within all of us.
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Text by Alexandra Kleeman

In an old mansion on Biscayne Bay, my great aunt Sandy is sitting at the edge of a grand piano. A man is sitting next...
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Text by Rob Goyanes

Nobody calls it Dimes Square without modulating their voice like they’re quoting someone. Nobody calls this place Dimes Square because it’s not called Dimes Square....
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Text by Melissa Mesku

I’ve never done this before, a reading stoned. I have zero anxiety. I drop $50 in the bookstore on tote bags and Anaïs Nin. Everyone...
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Text by Chloe Caldwell