beauty

Taking Down the System, Seductively: On Women Who Use Beauty as Currency

Celine Saintclare Recommends Mona Awad, Emma Cline, Frances Cha, and More

 
By Celine Saintclare  January 12, 2024
Beauty

More Than Meets the Eye: On the Ancient Origins and Diverse Uses of Eyeliner

By Zahra Hankir  December 5, 2023
Sexuality

We All Touch Ourselves: Fancy Feast on Beauty, Pleasure and Sexual Self-Actualization

By Fancy Feast  October 12, 2023
PEN World Voices

Mirror, Mirror: On the Intersection of Beauty, Power, and Motherhood

By Mona Awad  May 12, 2023
Behind the Mic

Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones, Read by the Author

By Behind the Mic   May 12, 2022
Beauty

Whither the Plain Female Protagonist? On “Great Beauty” in Literature

By Lucinda Rosenfeld  November 1, 2021
Environment

Jeff VanderMeer and Lili Taylor Talk Books, Birds, and Beauty

By Megan Mayhew Bergman  June 21, 2021
Interview with a Poet

Kate Durbin on Finding Beauty in the Possessions That Possess Us

By Chelsea Hodson  May 10, 2021
Reading Women

On Beauty Standards (and Privilege) in Memoir and Fiction

By Reading Women  October 21, 2020
Gender and Politics

On Beauty, Sexual Violence, and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

By Kanako Nishi  October 20, 2020
Reading Women

Reading Women on Books That Reckon with Beauty Privilege

By Reading Women  October 7, 2020
Beauty

Why Are We Fascinated by Strange Faces?

By Namwali Serpell  September 29, 2020
Beauty

Before Beauty Vlogging, There Were Renaissance
‘Books of Secrets’

By Meghan Racklin  January 15, 2020
Beauty

Where the Male Gaze Doesn’t Go: On YouTube’s Universe of Make-Up Tutorials

By Sam George-Allen  January 13, 2020
A Frenchman in America

On the Beauty of Defeat and the Future of Europe

By Aysegul Sert  May 7, 2019
News and Culture

A Day in the Life of One of New York’s Best Hairstylists

By Kate Bolick  April 10, 2019
Excerpts

From an Army Camp to the Champs-Élysées: Bill Cunningham’s Paris

By Bill Cunningham  September 4, 2018
Style

When They Put Lauryn Hill on the Cover of Time

By Joan Morgan  August 14, 2018
Criticism

A Conflicted Feminist Revenge Fantasy for the #MeToo Era

By Eric Thurm  June 5, 2018
Poets

Beauty, a Poem by Solmaz Sharif

By Solmaz Sharif  October 6, 2017
Deep Dive

More than the Beauty or the Heroine

By Zan Romanoff  September 20, 2017
What to Read

How Women Experience Beauty: A Reading List

By Sofi Oksanen  September 6, 2017
Excerpts

Too Smart or Too Pretty? The Anne of Green Gables Paradox

By Elisa Gabbert  August 29, 2017
Conversations

Han Kang on Violence, Beauty, and the (Im)possibility of Innocence

By Bethanne Patrick  February 12, 2016
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