Maria Lokke looks into “A Secret History of Women and Tattoo”: “Though tattoos are an increasingly common, and visible, element of personal style these days, it’s some of the more hidden and historic examples—from Victorian women to circus attractions—that are the most surprising.”

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(Source: newyorker.com)

Jacques Chambrun was a New York- based literary agent in the nineteen-forties and fifties with a penchant for pinstripe suits and stealing his clients’ money. One of his clients was Mavis Gallant. The diary entries excerpted in this week’s issue of the magazine show Gallant starving and desperate in Spain, selling her clock for breakfast. Her agent hadn’t mentioned that two of her stories—“The Picnic” and “One Morning in June”—would be appearing in The New Yorker.

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