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Rebecca Bengal

Contributing Writer. Her fiction and longform nonfiction also appear in many other magazines.

Come for the Photos, Stay for the Films: Danny Lyon at the Whitney

Nobel Prize Writer Svetlana Alexievich Speaks in New York After Orlando

Reframing the Photographic Legacy of Walker Evans, in a New Exhibition

Blue Velvet Revisited: Unseen Images From a New Documentary on the Making of David Lynch’s Classic

Katherine Dunn, Author of Geek Love, Has Died: Read Her 1995 Essay on the Bad Girl in Vogue

Scenes From a Beauty Pageant in Bangkok, Where Fashion Takes Center Stage

Remembering Malick Sidibé, Who Photographed the Look of a Changing West Africa

When Photographers Cook: ’70s-Era Images and Recipes From Richard Avedon and More

The Strange, Accidental Allure of Craigslist Mirrors

Where ikinga Rules the Road: Photographs of Burundi’s Vibrant Bike Culture

A Wanderlust Soundtrack of L.A.: Kevin Morby on His New Album, Singing Saw

Why Matt Gallagher’s New Novel About the Iraq War Matters Now

Filming Townes Van Zandt: The Making of Outlaw Country Documentary Heartworn Highways

With Garry Winogrand as His Copilot, Mark Steinmetz Photographed 1980s Los Angeles

Picturing New York’s Forgotten Borough: A Visit to Staten Island With Photographer Christine Osinski

Robert Frank’s Newsprint Retrospective Is True to the Photographer’s Revolutionary Spirit

Rewriting Love Underneath the Hollywood Sign

What We See Now When We Look at Francesca Woodman’s Photographs

Jane Birkin: On Film, on Serge, on Fashion, on Refusing to Say Her Own Name

The Endangered Animal Comeback Stories of 2015