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Harris – whose photographs are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Museum and the High Museum in Atlanta – made a specialty of taking “portraits” in which the sitter does not appear, telling the story of a person by the rooms he or she occupies or the things they use daily. “I felt as if I had been training for this mome... See more

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staged encounters.

Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire

“Is it the beard?” she asks. “Has it given you a personality transplant?”

B.K. Borison • Business Casual (Lovelight Book 4)

“Ah,” he says. “There she is.” “Who?” “You,” he says simply. “In full Technicolor.

B.K. Borison • Business Casual (Lovelight Book 4)

Tyra Banks and will.i.am and all the rest of the world’s other most influential people were treated to hastily prepared remarks delivered by a not entirely sober FTX employee named Adam Jacobs, who was bewildered to be standing in for Sam. “I’m like, What is the head of payments doing giving this speech?” said Jacobs. “Why am I drinking with will.i

Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

She was a harbinger of the sub rosa, the new world awaiting me in just a few weeks.

Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air

It was as if he wanted to catalog the world—not by any formal means, and not even for any particular reason, but simply because he found joy in the process.

Fei-Fei Li • The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

When I showed up with my camera at his house a few weeks later, I felt as if I had been training for that moment my entire working life. For more than forty years, in locations as disparate as the American South, Inuit villages in Alaska, Havana streets, and Hispanic towns in northern New Mexico, I learned to make portraits without the actual prese... See more

Margaret Sartor • Seeing Reynolds Price Through His Art Collection