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Giorgio Agamben

Image of Platonic philosopher, rhetorician, and author Lucius Apuleius.

Lucius Apuleius

(c. 124 - c. 171)

Noga Arikha

Arnobius the Elder

(c. 250 - c. 330)

Saint Augustine (detail), by Philippe de Champaigne, c. 1645.

Saint Augustine

(354 - 430)

Mikhail Bakhtin

(1895 - 1975)

Giambattista Basile

(1575 - 1632)

Barry Bonds

Elias Canetti

(1905 - 1994)

Robert Farrar Capon

(1925 - 2013)

Blaise Cendrars

(1887 - 1961)

Cennino Cennini

(c. 1360 - c. 1426)

Russian author Anton Chekhov.

Anton Chekhov

(1860 - 1904)

An Chongbok

(1712 - 1791)

Lucille Clifton

(1936 - 2010)

Painted portrait of British explorer James Cook.

James Cook

(1728 - 1779)

Harry Crews

(1935 - 2012)

David Cronenberg

Giovanni Della Casa

(1503 - 1556)

French man of letters Denis Diderot.

Denis Diderot

(1713 - 1784)

Color photograph of American writer Annie Dillard.

Annie Dillard

Nawal El Saadawi

(1931 - 2021)

Profile of a man in a suit jacket leaning over a piece of paper with men in the background

Frantz Fanon

(1925 - 1961)

Jean Genet

(1910 - 1986)