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Classical bust of Thucydides.

Portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville wearing a black suit and standing in front of a chair.

Time

Thucydides & Alexis de Tocqueville

Photograph of English novelist Charles Dickens.

Spies

Charles Dickens & Edward Snowden

American writer Dawn Powell.

Travel

Harriet Beecher Stowe & Dawn Powell

Statue of the Persian poet Ferdowsi.

Character from the television series The Wire.

Politics

Ferdowsi & Ed Burns and William Zorzi

St. Benedict

Belgian Symbolist poet, playwright, and essayist Maurice Maeterlinck.

Communication

Saint Benedict & Maurice Maeterlinck

Engraving of Roman author and administrator Pliny the Younger.

German sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel.

The City

Pliny the Younger & Georg Simmel

black and white pencil drawing of Moliere in an ornate frame

Black and white photograph of French novelist, essayist, and playwright Albert Camus.

Eros

Molière & Albert Camus

Missing contributor image silhouette

Missing contributor image silhouette

Arts & Letters

Arthur Fifield & Norman Maclean

Black and white image of Greek biographer and writer Plutarch.

Henry David Thoreau

Animals

Plutarch & Henry David Thoreau

Seated man with a large white beard wearing a dark suit

Black and white photograph of a dark-haired man in a white shirt holding a newspaper

Migration

Karl Marx & Cesar Chavez

Black and white photograph of Emily Dickinson sitting next to a desk.

E.C. Krupp

States of Mind

Emily Dickinson & E.C. Krupp

Portrait bust of Greek historian Xenophon.

German poet Heinrich Heine.

Travel

Xenophon & Heinrich Heine

Black and white photograph of English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Black and white photograph of British writer Doris Lessing.

Youth

Gerard Manley Hopkins & Doris Lessing

Missing contributor image silhouette

Oil painting portrair Michel de Montaigne in red robes and white collar

Medicine

Mimnermus & Montaigne

Painted portrait of English physician and author Thomas Browne.

Color photograph of American poet and critic Paul Zweig.

Death

Thomas Browne & Paul Zweig