It consists of poetry (often the briefest of fragments), a selection of essays, including several about authors from classical antiquity, and even the libretto of an opera.

ECONOMIST: New verse

Edited by Vogue Features Director Eve MacSweeney, the book is made up of essays by authors including Joan Didion, Margaret Atwood, Patti Smith, Karl Lagerfeld, Carly Simon, George Plimpton, Manolo Blahnik, Anjelica Huston and Joyce Carol Oates paired with iconic images that appeared in Vogue.

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More than 300 notables from all walks of life have contributed essays thus far, including Garrison Keillor, Diane von Furstenberg, Bill Gross, Erica Jong, Muhammad Yunus, Tom Hanks, Ken Burns, Harold Prince, David McCullough, Thomas Friedman, Barbara Kingsolver, and many others.

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The sixty-three essays are based on the work of Vogue photographers including Helmut Newton, Henry Clarke, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Horst P.

FORBES: New Book: Nostalgia In Vogue

The excellent catalog by the show's original co-curators, Tim Barringer, Jason Rosenfeld and Alison Smith, includes important essays, copious illustrations and highly detailed captions for each work (including those not brought to Washington).

WSJ: Victorian Avant-Garde | Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design | National Gallery of Art | By Barrymore Laurence Scherer

The installation is elegant and evocative, and there's a handsome catalog with enlightening essays by Ms. Brilliant, Mr. Ilchman and other specialists, including the eminent David Rosand.

WSJ: More than a Mere Colorist | Veronese | Ringling Museum of Art

Some were brilliant, including his biography of Sir Edmund Backhouse, an unscrupulous British oriental scholar, and his satirical essays on life at Oxford published under the pseudonym Mercurius Oxoniensis.

ECONOMIST: A historian created and destroyed by Hitler

In just four weeks, a team of dedicated copy editors (including my friend, Tokyo-based journalist Sandra Barron) and translators pulled together numerous mini-essays, photos, and drawings from contributors across the world.

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