The Birth of Venus, by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485. Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

Celebrity

Volume IV, Number 1 | winter 2011

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Dancing with the Stars

Lewis H. Lapham

Hatching Monsters

Charles Baxter

Against Appearances

Bruce Bawer

Vanishing Act

Paul Collins

Gilgamesh to Gaga

John Tresch

A Public Man

Andrew McConnell Stott

Consumer Products

Stephen Marche

Map

Hall of Famers

Miscellany

Voices In Time

The Old A-List

c. 1450 | France

Triumph

63 BC | Rome

Bow and Bid Adieu

1819 | London

Without Deeds, Without Names

c. 1330 | Kyoto

Animal Magnetism

c. 1795 | Paris

Intimations of Immortality

c. 109 | Rome

Notorious

1897 | Reading

Edmund Wilson Regrets

c. 1950 | New York City

Last Words

44 BC | Rome

Lisztomania

1844 | Paris

Rumor Mill

1792 | London

Gossip Girl

c. 1874 | London

Hour of Fame

1862 | South Carolina

The Royal Self

1823 | London

This Is Just to Say

1981 | Washington, DC

Aging Monument

1818 | London

Stage Direction

1814 | Albany

Press Release

c. 2100 BC | Mesopotamia

Great Man Theory

1849 | Concord, MA

Fan Base

c. 30 | Galilee

Whispers of Uncertain Origin

8 | Rome

Tabloids

1838 | London

Letter to a Young Fan

c. 1979 | Los Angeles

You Reap What You Sow

1970 | Minneapolis

Making a Reputation

1759 | Boston

Tough Crowd

1846 | Copenhagen

We Few, We Famous Few

1711 | London

Hitting It Big

1868 | Kansas

As False as Common Fame

c. 1680 | Oxfordshire

Descent from the Clouds

1927 | Paris

Fame Answereth All Things

1601 | London

Different Strokes

c. 31 | Rome

View from the Top

c. 1045 BC | Fenghao

Setting His Stage

1835 | Philadelphia

Dead Moon

1790 | London

Wretched Lust of Praise

1715 | London

Anonym

1861 | Amherst

Voted Off the Island

c. 482 BC | Athens

On Being Seen

c. 54 BC | Rome

Seating Arrangement

1709 | London

Frederick Treves Catches a Falling Star

c. 1885 | London

Bright Ambition

1875 | Hartford

Where the Flowers Go

1880 | Paris

Deification

1550 | Florence

William Faulkner Writes His Epitaph

1949 | Oxford, MS

Performance Art

c. 420 | Syria

Entourage

c. 432 BC | Athens

Notoriety

c. 1270 | Paris

Dreamboat

c. 1920 | United States

Charts and Graphs

Piece of the Action

But What I Really Want to Do Is Invent

Celebrity Deathmatch

Decline and Fall

Who’s Really Bigger?

Acting Out

Image Is Everything

Name Changer

They’re Just Like Us

Paths of Glory

Cause Célèbre

Failsafe

On Tour

Where Are They Now?

Contributors

Conversations

Arrian & Matt Damon

Christopher Marlowe & Roland Barthes

Suetonius & Nikki Sixx

Charles Dickens & John Lennon

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