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Tobias Wolff Will Receive Our 2024 Hadada AwardPhotograph by Elena Seibert. In an interview published in The Paris Review no. 171 (Fall 2004), Tobias Wolff pinpointed the...
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Alpine White BMW M4 Convertible, Fiona Red Leather InteriorBMW of Mountain View Geniuses, “ Tour the 2023 M4 Competition xDrive Convertible in Alpine White | 4K .” I am not only a horrible driver but...
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Making of a Poem: Olivia Sokolowski on “Lover of Cars”An alternate ending to “Lover of Cars.” For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in...
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Dare to Leave a Trace: On A City of SadnessYidingmu Police Station, Taipei, the morning of February 28, 1947. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Hou Hsiao-hsien’s A City of Sadness (...
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Cooking with Madame d’AulnoyPhotograph by Erica Maclean. The fairy tales of Mary-Catherine le Jumel de Barneville, Baronesse d’Aulnoy—first published in French in...
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Beginning with Color: An Interview with Etel AdnanPhotograph courtesy of Nightboat Books. She would say that driving a big car on a highway crossing the American desert was like doing...
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Free EverythingPhoto by Friedrich Haag, via Wikimedia Commons . Licensed via CC BY-SA 4.0 . I don’t remember the first time I did it, but I remember the...
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On Peter PanScene from Mabou Mines Peter and Wendy with Karen Kandel. Photograph taken by Richard Termine. I remember reading Peter Pan as a kid, a...
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The Language of Lava LampsPhotograph courtesy of the author. In an office-building lobby in San Francisco, there is a wall where about one hundred lava lamps...
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So Fierce is the World: On Loneliness and Phillip Seymour HoffmannPhilip Seymour Hoffman, 2010. Photograph by Justin Hoch, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons , Licensed under CC BY SA 2.0 . “He’s dead.” The...
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Apartment FourPhotograph by Jacqueline Feldman. One spring evening I pulled in and saw my neighbor Stefanie was sitting on her car, which has the next spot...
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My Strawberry Plants: On MarcottageAlphonse du Breuil, Marcottage en serpenteaux , 1846. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons . Recently, I read Virginia Woolf’s first...
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Lost and FoundThe MTA lost and found. Photograph by Sophie Haigney. I was thinking, recently, of a scene from the animated movie Rudolph the Red-Nosed...
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J. G. Ballard’s Brilliant, “Not Good” WritingShuets Udono, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons . Putting Ballard on a master’s course list, as I’ve done a couple of times, provokes a...
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W Stands for WThe W Hotel, Barcelona. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. When I was first hired as a bartender by the W Hotel in Seattle, the brand was still...
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Making of a Poem: D. A. Powell on “As for What the Rain Can Do”Joshua Sampson, CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons . For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve...
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The Cat BookCat Playing by Oliver Herford. Public Domain, Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. What’s your favorite Dawn Powell book? I’m beginning this...
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Fall Books: Zadie Smith, Moyra Davey, and Maya Binyam RecommendWork Projects Administration Poster Collection, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons . Pick up Chloe Aridjis’s Dialogue with a...
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Six Photos from W. G. Sebald’s AlbumsW. G. Sebald, from photographs labeled “Korsika Sept 95.” I lay motionless for a long time by the little quicksilver stream that even now,...
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Two Strip Clubs, Paris and New HampshireHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec, La danse au Moulin Rouge , 1890. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons . Every summer, my mother would take me...
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The Paris Review Wins 2023 Whiting Literary Magazine PrizeWe are thrilled to announce that The Paris Review has won a 2023 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize . The judges wrote: For...
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Announcing Our Fall IssueSometimes, as the Review ’s print deadline looms, I catch myself fantasizing about a return to university life. I should clarify that, in...
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Looking for Virginia Woolf’s DiariesPhotograph by Laura Kolbe. The Diary of Virginia Woolf brings into sharp focus the question of what to do with one’s life. I’m...
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Jets and TrashIn May 2005, I graduated from New York University with a degree in journalism. That fall, I got a job off Craigslist working for a...
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Does Lana Del Rey Read The Paris Review?Sam McKinniss, Lana Del Rey Reading The Paris Review , 2023, five-color offset lithograph with hot foil stamping on acid-free 352-gsm Sappi...
