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Reading the Room: An Interview with Paul YamazakiCourtesy of Stacey Lewis / City Lights. Paul Yamazaki has been City Lights Bookstore’s chief buyer for over fifty years, responsible for...
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Porn: America Moore, Chloe Cherry, Bianca Censori, Maison MargielaScreenshot of Baz Luhrmann’s movie for the Maison Margiela Artisanal Collection . America has a perfect round ass. We watch her mount a...
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My Year of Finance BoysSg1959, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. I shouldn’t have been surprised that the hedge fund analyst knew me better than I knew myself....
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Ash WednesdayFrom “Longing,” Prabuddha Dasgupta. From the Spring 2012 Issue of The Review. I like the ashes on Ash Wednesday. I am at best a...
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FunPhoto by Kelly from Pexels . When I was another boy, I was the boy next door. He was Jase, short for Jason: generic, but with a nickname...
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Ananda Devi and Callie Siskel RecommendJohn William Waterhouse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons . When I read Katie Kitamura’s Intimacies , a novel about an interpreter at...
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A Winter Dispatch from the Review‘s Poetry EditorIllustration by Na Kim. In her Art of Poetry interview in our new Winter issue, Louise Glück expertly captures the psychodynamics between...
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My Brush with GreatnessJoan Collins in Drive Hard, Drive Fast (1973). Public domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons . It was 1990, and the man I loved had died....
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Essay on the SkyPraia Brava, 2015. Photograph by Isaac Katz. Billows and soft extensions, the cream lapping through there, between solid graymass and float...
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The Frenchwoman from IndianapolisJanet Flanner, ca. 1925. Berenice Abbott, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Here is Norman Mailer in his fine black boots, high-cut and...
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Too Enjoyable to Be LiteraturePhotograph by Jane Breakell. I knew nothing about F. Scott Fitzgerald when I stumbled on Tender Is the Night in 1962. I didn’t know he’d...
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At the Britney Spears House MuseumPhotograph by Emmeline Clein. Besides Britney, bottled water is Kentwood’s biggest export. Across most of Louisiana, this town is more...
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Recommended Readings for StudentsYu Hua in Paris, 2004. Courtesy of Yu Hua. The new Winter issue of The Paris Review, no. 246, includes an Art of Fiction interview with...
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Qishu: Han Song’s Hospital NightmaresDigital artwork of a science-fictional surgery room by alan9187, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons . Hospitals play a big role in Yu Hua’s life and...
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The Darkest Week of the Year: Fosse’s SeptologyHans Gude, From the western Coast of Norway, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons . 1. This past fall, Jon Fosse won the Nobel Prize...
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How to Rizz (for the Lonely Weeb): DerpyconMy first brush with Derpycon lore—and by lore I mean its legally enforced code of conduct—was a scroll through its extensive weapons policy....
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Young, Slender, Blond, Blue-EyedFrom Interiors , Claudia Keep’s portfolio in issue no. 246 of The Paris Review . PHOTOGRAPH BY CARY WHITTIER, COURTESY OF CLAUDIA KEEP AND...
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Caps for SalePieter Bruegel the Elder and Pieter van der Heyden, The Merchant Robbed by Monkeys , 1562, via Wikimedia Commons . Licensed under CC0 1.0...
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Letters to a BiographerGreg Johnson and Joyce Carol Oates have been corresponding since 1975, when he wrote her a letter about a professor of his who had committed...
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Sorting through the Wreckage: The Stories of Diane OliverDiane Oliver. Courtesy of Peeler Studios. Read Diane Oliver’s short story “ No Brown Sugar in Anybody’s Milk ,”...
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Making of a Poem: Nadja Küchenmeister and Aimee Chor on “feathers and planets”Basile Morin, close-up photograph of swan feathers letting sunlight through, via Wikimedia Commons . Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED ....
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Gravity and Grace in Richard IIFrom How do You Hold Your Debt?, Christine Sun Kim’s portfolio in issue no. 241. COURTESY OF CHRISTINE SUN KIM, FRANÇOIS GHEBALY, AND...
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JanuarysBeach in January. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Licensed Under CC0 4.0 . Every December day that I’m in Maine I swim in the ocean and my...
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What If We’re All Self-Playing Harps?Wind Harp, a twenty-eight-meter Aeolian harp and public sculpture designed by Lucia and Aristides Demetrios and constructed in 1967 on a hilltop...
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Invisible Ink: At the CIA’s Creative Writing GroupAerial view of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters some time between 1990 and 2006. Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive,...
