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Death by SeaPhotograph by Isabel Dietz Hartmann. Heading to the dinner party, I wondered if people there would be able to tell that I was in crisis. Out...
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Book as EnemyAdania Shibli. Photograph courtesy of Adania Shibli. Smoking might be banned at book fairs, while one doesn’t expect books to be...
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Second SelvesVincent Van Gogh, Oleanders , 1888. Public domain. I. Jill Price has remembered every day of her life since she was fourteen years...
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Dream GossipFrom Alice Notley’s zine Scarlet #1 . Digitized by Nick Sturm as part of Alice Notley’s Magazines: A Digital Publishing Project ....
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Emma’s Last NightPhotograph by Jacqueline Feldman. There had been concern when Jean and Emma got together that he was too serious, macho. I perhaps had it...
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Between the World and the Universe, a Woman Is ThinkingPoem by Alice Notley, in the collection Grave of Light . Courtesy of Wesleyan University Press. Photograph by Sara Nicholson. Poets have...
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Alice Notley’s PropheciesALICE NOTLEY AT HOME WITH HER SON ANSELM, NEW YORK, 1984. PHOTOGRAPH BY SUSAN CATALDO, COURTESY OF ALICE NOTLEY. In the new Spring issue of...
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On Being WarlikeIN FRONT OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL IN PARIS, 2005. PHOTOGRAPH BY ALEX DUPEUX, COURTESY OF ALICE NOTLEY. In the new Spring issue of The Paris...
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On Elias Canetti’s Book Against DeathEvert Collier, Vanitas – Still Life with Books and Manuscripts and a Skull , 1663, oil on panel. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons ....
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“Choose Hope or Despair”: On John ShoptawA flock of sanderlings in San Francisco, California, in 2011. Brocken Inaglory, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons . Licensed under CCO 3.0. In...
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Making of a Poem: Maureen N. McLane on “Haptographic Interface”The poem begins. Photograph courtesy of Maureen McLane. For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems...
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The Art of the Libretto: John AdamsJohn Adams. Photograph by Deborah O’Grady. This week, a new production of the composer John Adams’s oratorio El Niño opened at the...
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Bad Dinner GuestPhotographic print by Frank Scholten, via Wikimedia Commons . Public domain. I ruined a dinner party ten years ago in Phoenix. Among the...
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On the Distinctiveness of Writing in ChinaYan Lianke at the Salon du Livre, 2010. Photograph by Georges Seguin, via Wikimedia Commons . Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED . When I...
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In WarsawThe End of Dinner , Jules-Alexandre Grün, 1913. Public domain. In our new Spring issue , we published the short story “ The Beautiful...
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“Throwing Yourself Into the Dark”: A Conversation with Anne CarsonAnne Carson. Photograph by Peter Smith. Anne Carson and I met on Zoom last October, in the brick-red sitting room of her apartment in...
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Prescribing Creativity: The Meta-Diaries of Marion MilnerMarion Milner, The Angry Parrot . All images from Marion Milner’s On Not Being Able to Paint (Routledge, 2010) , reproduced by...
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“We’re Never Alone”Tobias Wolff at the Spring Revel in 2024. The Review was thrilled this year to honor Tobias Wolff with the Hadada Award , our annual...
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Sherlock’s Double: At William Gillette’s CastlePhotograph courtesy of the author. Anyone can lay a funerary GIF at one of the 238 million virtual tombstones at findagrave.com . A rose...
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The Rejection PlotPrint from Trouble , by Bruce Charlesworth, a portfolio which appeared in The Paris Review in the magazine’s Fall 1985 issue....
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HandsPhotograph by Edna Winti. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons , licensed under CC BY 2.0 Deed . I am prepared. I have had my will drawn and...
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The Locker Room: An Abercrombie DispatchA&F Hong Kong store opening, 2012. 製作, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. In May of 2005, discontent with my job as a photo editor...
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Making of a Poem: Eliot Weinberger on “The Ceaseless Murmuring of Innumerable Bees”Anne Noble, The Dead Bee Portraits #2 . Courtesy of the artist. For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems...
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A Sense of Agency: A Conversation with Lauren OylerPhotograph by Carleen Coulter. The one time I met Lauren Oyler in person was in New York in the spring of 2018. I had been closely following...
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I Love You, MaradonaPhotograph by Rachel Connolly. While reading Maradona’s autobiography this past winter, I found that every few pages I would whisper or...
