Argentine security forces seizing a young man in 1982 in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War.

Abel Ferrara at Piazza Vittorio Emanuele Il in his adopted home city.

In the mid-20th century, when this man browsed bookstore shelves, fiction was a boys club. Today, the situation has changed.

Flannery O’Connor’s 1952 self-portrait is the star of an exhibition in Milledgeville, Ga. She “stares at us with the deadpan of a Byzantine saint, a golden sun hat engulfing her head like a halo,” our critic writes.

In her new short story collection, Curtis Sittenfeld examines the anxieties of women in middle age.

Facebook’s C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg rings the Nasdaq’s opening bell from Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., on May 18, 2012, the day of the company’s initial public offering, while Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s C.O.O., looks on.