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A new genre of artwork flourished amid the rubble of disaster-stricken Edo in 1855: a type of woodblock print…

A self-styled glaciologist, Rabot undertook four expeditions to the Arctic in his lifetime, taking stunning p…

For First Nations people, health is not a matter of mechanical fitness of the body, but of language, identity…

A Japanese collection of poetry and prose includes illustrations supposedly replicating a lost manuscript by …

After the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923, a group of modern Japanese artists sought to capture the rapid mode…

A curious two-volume illustrated book on bonsai from the nineteenth century dispensed not only with vessels b…

When Thomas William Smillie (1843–1917) was designated “custodian” of the Smithsonian Institution’s photograp…

From 1907 until its relocation in 1953, the area of Lincoln Heights was home to what the Los Angeles Times du…

People tend to notice when you say, "I can open your front door in thirty seconds."

Rising to prominence in the seventeenth century, the Basohli School of painting is particularly known for its…

As part of the DOCUMERICA project, which sought to produce a visual record of the 1970s US, John H. White too…

Archived amid Prokudin-Gorsky's vast photographic survey of the Russian Empire, we find images shot through w…

In the midst of all that was horrible and strange in 2020, a disturbing story about a court case in New York'…

There's a scene near the end of the short story "Jambava's Lineage" where a woman named Ellamma notices that …

­­"Yes, you can fly," said one of the moderators. "We'll be doing that in a minute." There was scattered laug…

Featuring work from thirty-four countries, the Spring 2022 issue is once again charting new territory across …

Though masks are popularly conceived of as limiting expression, they allow their wearers to access a range of…

The month of February saw celebrations in honor of the 581st birthday of the poet Alisher Navoi, a key figure…

Let us begin with an execution. Of all the lurid scenes that compose the fragmentary novel Satyricon, perhaps…

Begun as part of the alphabet soup of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policies, the Farm Security Administra…

Asymptote 's Winter 2022 issue is now out, marking the magazine's eleventh year in publication! The newest ed…

The Kazakh film Akyn (The Poet) has been selected for screening at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festiva…

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the figure of the "anti-vax mom" has loomed large in the public con…

Each issue, we highlight an artist whose work is thematically resonant with the written pieces. For TEETH, we…