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Rows of English and French magazines displayed on racks in a store in Toronto, Ontario, with colorful covers featuring various topics and celebrities.

Broadside advertisement for Prairie Farmer magazine from 1852, featuring large red and black text surrounded by detailed farm-themed illustrations including livestock, crops, and equipment.

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Cover of Esquire magazine's May 1967 issue, designed by George Lois, photography by Carl Fischer.

Editorial two-page spread from Harper's Bazaar, designed by Alexey Brodovitch, with photography by Gleb Derujinski.

Cover of the March 2006 issue of The Métis Nation magazine.

Cover for WET magazine, designed by April Greiman, 1979.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

American writer

Portrait of Charles Dickens seated at a desk, writing with a quill pen, dressed in a suit with a bow tie.

Charles Dickens

British novelist

Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.

Samuel Johnson

English author

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

American writer

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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

French critic

Imogen Cunningham: photograph of Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz

American photographer

Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini

Giuseppe Mazzini

Italian revolutionary

Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi

Italian media magnate and prime minister

W.E.B. Du Bois

W.E.B. Du Bois

American sociologist, historian, and activist

Winslow Homer: Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)

Winslow Homer

American artist

Rupert Murdoch wearing glasses, a black suit, white shirt, and black tie, posing at the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.

Rupert Murdoch

Australian-born American publisher

Steele, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Sir Richard Steele

British author and politician

Eve Babitz

Eve Babitz

American writer and artist

Black and white illustrated portrait of a woman with a calm expression, wearing a headscarf and traditional clothing, representing Indian freedom fighter Aruna Asaf Ali.

Aruna Asaf Ali

Indian political activist

Irving Kristol.

Irving Kristol

American essayist, editor, and publisher

Speaking truth to power

Jimmy Lai

Chinese-born British businessman

Jules Verne

Jules Verne

French author

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

British writer

Oprah Winfrey smiling at an event in 2017, wearing black glasses and a white outfit, with a red background behind her.

Oprah Winfrey

American television personality, actress, and entrepreneur

Magazines on display in a store in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. There are more than 1300 English and French magazines that are published in Canada.

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