Vicki Goldberg Takes a Closer Look at Farrah Fawcett

We once complimented a historian on the photo captions in his latest monograph. Each one, we explained, revealed information that wasn’t in the main text and made us scrutinize the photo anew. “Bravo on the close reading!” When he greeted our compliment with a quizzical expression, we ran for a Vicki Goldberg essay to help explain the postmodern turn of phrase, born to the world of literary theory and now used to describe a thorough analysis of any creative work.

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