The 'Looks' Issue
Our obsession with physical appearance may not be so shallow, after all
 
How do the blind see beauty? For this writer, the more interesting question is how you do.
 
Her chest gets the first look, but she hopes to draw their interest to what's above the neck.
 
He's 100 percent Asian American. But in a profiling culture, mass confusion is only a thatch of ringlets away.
 
In the Chicago neighborhood where she grew up, everybody loved the girls with the curves. Decades later, she loves her own.
 
Transcript
David von Drehle fields questions and comments about the Magazine's "Looks Issue."
 

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