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Sylvia Plath Reads “A Birthday Present”: A Rare 1962 Recording
Sylvia Plath Reads “A Birthday Present”: A Rare 1962 Recording

“I do not want much of a present, anyway, this year. / After all I am alive only by accident.”

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The Architect Says: A Compendium of Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom from Iconic Architects
The Architect Says: A Compendium of Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom from Iconic Architects

Gehry, Eames, Le Corbusier, Fuller, Hadid, and more.

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100 Ideas That Changed Architecture
100 Ideas That Changed Architecture

How the art and science of building evolved along the parallel axes of the philosophical and the pragmatic.

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Henri Matisse’s Rare 1935 Etchings for James Joyce’s <em>Ulysses</em>
Henri Matisse’s Rare 1935 Etchings for James Joyce’s Ulysses

A 22-karat creative cross-pollination.

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100 Ideas That Changed Film
100 Ideas That Changed Film

How the seventh art went from magic lanterns to state-of-the-art computer-generated imagery in 100 years.

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Drawing from the City: Exquisite Indian Folk Art Meets Women’s Empowerment
Drawing from the City: Exquisite Indian Folk Art Meets Women’s Empowerment

One self-taught artist’s journey from poverty to imaginative reinvention.

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Beautiful Stop-Motion Animated Film About the Progression of Alzheimer’s
Beautiful Stop-Motion Animated Film About the Progression of Alzheimer’s

A textured, tactile journey of abstraction.

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Nora Ephron on Women, Love, Happiness, Reading, Life, and Death
Nora Ephron on Women, Love, Happiness, Reading, Life, and Death

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

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Queen Victoria’s Little-Known Art
Queen Victoria’s Little-Known Art

An unprecedented look at the private journals of Britain’s longest-ruling monarch.

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A Glorious Enterprise: The Making of American Science
A Glorious Enterprise: The Making of American Science

Rare glimpses of strange specimens and obscure images, laced with tales of scientific rivalry and boundless inspiration, with cameos by Thomas Jefferson, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, and James Bond.

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