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Back in the Stacks: 1992

Posted by Periodicals/Reference Librarian

Since it feels like summer was decades ago, we took a look at summer decades ago; a sampling of our periodicals. It was hot. Once upon a time.

Open the The New Yorker, what’s the first thing you see? The New Yorker, June 1992.

Rappers in recovery. Alan Light, “L.A. Rappers Speak Out.” Rolling Stone, June 25, 1992.

Still maybe an issue. Mad, June 1992.

Walter De Maria and El Greco in Stockholm’s Moderna Museet, from “All Fives, Sevens, and Nines,” by Lars Nittve. Artforum, Summer 1992.

Mad, June 1992.

Danny Tisdale, Lynching 1930. From “Engendered Species,” by Kobena Mercer. Artforum, Summer 1992

“On the Road to Kassel,” Artforum, Summer 1992.

The hits. Rolling Stone, June 25, 1992.

Novum, June 1992.

More car ads featuring cops. Vanity Fair, June 1992.

Before mixology. Rolling Stone, June 25, 1992.

From an interview with George Condo, by Anney Bonney. Bomb, Summer 1992.

Vogue, June 1992.

Be thankful for lasers. Vogue, June 1992.

Checking up on the crooks. Annie Leibovitz, “Watergate.” Vanity Fair, June 1992.

Before Bill did it. Julia Reed, “Clinton on the Brink.” Vogue, June 1992.

“Documenting Documenta.” Interview, June 1992.

Fashion fish. Vogue, June 1992.

It doesn’t stop. Interview, June 1992.

And no one is pretending. Interview, June 1992.

Religion. Vanity Fair, June 1992.

From John Ashbery’s “Baked Alaska.” The New Yorker, June 29, 1992.

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American Illustrated Magazine

Nov 10

Posted by Periodicals/Reference Librarian

American Illustrated Magazine
November 1905-October 1906 (Volumes 61-62)

American Illustrated Magazine does not explain itself. It gets right on with the story. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, on soft, aromatic paper. Pleasantly antiquated. And illustrated of course, with photographs, like a series of bird portraits or a crocodile hunt, or with drawings that step out in front of what they were meant to describe. As if they told their own story all along.