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Ripping IvyIvy. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CCO 2.0. When we moved into our little house, the large beds of English ivy in the...
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A Dollhouse-Sized HologramDavid Levine, Dissolution . Courtesy of the artist. Currently on display at the Museum of the Moving Image is a dollhouse-size hologram that...
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The Landscape Has No DoorsJames Casebere, Panopticon Prison 3 . From Silverprints , a portfolio in the Spring 1994 issue of The Paris Review . Nearly seven years...
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Making of a Poem: Farid Matuk on “Crease”For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Farid Matuk’s “ Crease ”...
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The Life and Times of The Paris MetroCover of The Paris Metro . Courtesy of the fortieth anniversary issue, published in 2016. In 1974, Harry Stein and Thomas Moore, young...
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The SpherePhotograph by Elena Saavedra Buckley. Once when I was about twelve I was walking down the dead-end road in Albuquerque where I grew up,...
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On Sven Holm’s Novella of Nuclear DisasterVedbæk, Denmark. MchD, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons . Halfway through Sven Holm’s taut unfolding nightmare, Termush , the unnamed...
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A Memory from My Personal LifePhotograph by Agustina Fernández. Hebe Uhart had a unique way of looking—a power of observation that was streaked with humor, but which...
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’88 Toyota CelicaPhotograph by Stefan Marolachakis, courtesy of Sam Axelrod. I turned nineteen and moved to Chicago. Three weeks later, Dave and I bought a...
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MadeleinesA madeleine. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The other day, I graduated from an iPhone 6 to an iPhone 15. The iPhone 6 needed to be plugged in...
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The Paris Review’s Favorite Books of 2023Henry Taylor, UNTITLED, 2010. From Untitled Portfolio , issue no. 243. © HENRY TAYLOR, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND HAUSER AND WIRTH....
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Happy BooksFrom Recent Vases, a portfolio by Francesca DiMattio in issue no. 228. This year I was so happy. I was happy for the main reason that I...
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Mazda MiataMazda Miata . Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. The most handsome man at my high school was so beautiful that I would have been...
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An Excerpt from our Art of Poetry Interview with Louise GlückTUCSON, ARIZONA, 1978. PHOTOGRAPH BY LOIS SHELTON, © ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS, COURTESY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA POETRY CENTER. In...
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Martin Scorsese’s Family PicturesErnest Burkhart and his wife, Mollie, née Kyle. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons . In spring 2021, a photo still from Martin Scorsese’s...
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In the Spin Room: At the Republican DebatePhotograph by Antonia Hitchens. Last night, the fourth Republican debate took place in Alabama; Nikki Haley, Chris Christie, Vivek...
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C’est la Vie!: A French Cancer DiaryMargot Bergman, Untitled (Cup) , 1985–1992, from a portfolio in issue no. 244 . July 20 After a day of spewing blood, I am in...
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Announcing Our Winter IssueA poet recently sent me an essay by George Oppen called “The Mind’s Own Place,” published in 1963. In it, Oppen grapples with lines from...
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The Secrets of BeautyCocteau’s epitaph in Saint-Blaise-des-Simples Chapel in Milly-la-Forêt, via Wikimedia Commons . Photograph by Renaud Camus, licensed under CC...
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A Pimp with a Heart of GoldPeter Bogdanovich’s Saint Jack (1979). I watched the 1979 film Saint Jack on Amazon’s ad-supported streaming service, Freevee....
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Syllabus: Unexpected DramaturgyLYNN NOTTAGE IN REHEARSAL FOR THIS IS READING (2017) AT THE FRANKLIN STREET RAILROAD STATION IN READING, PENNSYLVANIA, 2017. In an...
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The Church Van1990 Plymouth Voyager. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Every Sunday morning would start the same way. Grandma Gayle, after her...
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Postcards from Elizabeth BishopUnpublished postcard sent by Elizabeth Bishop, from Special Collections Library, Vassar College. Copyright © 2023 by The Alice H. Methfessel...
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Lifesize Dioramas: At Carolee Schneemann’s HousePhotograph by Hannah Gold. Carolee Schneeman’s house near New Paltz. In 1965, a stone house near New Paltz was slated for auction. A...
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In the BeginningPhotograph by J.D. Daniels. I don’t remember learning to read. There is a story in my family: I am still a small child, my mother carries me...
