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Sentences We Loved This SummerBonner Springs City Library, Bonner Springs, Kentucky, via Wikimedia Commons . Licensed under CC BY 2.0 , A passage about LA (“ellay”) from...
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“Practice Tantric Exodus”: Tuning into Burning ManPhotograph by Dustin Faulk. Last Friday afternoon, the first in a series of downpours began in northern Nevada just as Burning Man was...
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Dark RoomsNtozake Shange at Barnard College in November 1978. From the Barnard College archives, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons . Licensed under CC BY-SA...
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Wrong TurnWilliamsburg Bridge. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Licensed under CC0 4.0. I was in an Uber Pool (I guess they’re not called that anymore)...
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Apparently Personal: On Sharon OldsSharon Olds at left, with a GIrl Scout camp friend at Lake Tahoe, California, ca. 1956. Courtesy of Sharon Olds. Who is Sharon Olds? Sharon...
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MEN NOT ALLOWED BEYOND THIS POINTKenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond, Hampstead Heath. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons , Licensed under CCO 2.0. It was the full-body ache of...
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Passionate Kisses: The Soundtrack at CVSCourtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Licensed under CCO 4.0. I seem to find a reason to go to CVS several times a week. Sometimes these reasons...
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Early Spring SketchesHubert Robert, detail from “Fire at the Paris Opera House of the Palais-Royal.” Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Licensed under CC0...
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Alejo Carpentier’s Second LanguageAlejo Carpentier, 1979. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons . I like to think of literature as a second language—especially the second...
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Lifelines: On Santa BarbaraDiana Markosian, The Arrival , from Santa Barbara , 2019. Courtesy of Rose Gallery. I lived in Moscow during the summer of 1992, just...
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August 27–September 4: What the Review’s Staff Is Doing Next WeekRare blue supermoon. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons , licensed under CCO 3.0. August is coming to its end—a blessing or a curse,...
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In This Essay I Will: On DistractionFrom Elements , a portfolio by Roger Vieillard in issue no. 16 (Spring–Summer 1957). I began writing this essay while putting off writing...
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Searching for Tom CruiseTom Cruise at Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One premiere. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Licensed Under CC0 2.0. When asked...
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On Friendship: Juliana Leite and Devon Geyelin RecommendFriendship bracelets, Ra’ike, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons . I’m interested in stories that gently erase the boundaries...
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What the Review’s Staff Is Doing This Week: August 21–27Flushing Meadows Fairgrounds. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, Licensed under CC0 4.0. Artists & Writers Annual Charity Softball Game...
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Alex Katz’s Collaborations with PoetsJohn Ashbery and Alex Katz, Fragment , 1969. Photograph by Paul Takeuchi, courtesy of Alex Katz Studio and GRAY, Chicago/New York. The...
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The Animal of a LifeYaddo, in Saratoga Springs. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons , licensed under CCO 4.0. Saturday was Richard’s birthday, and we drove to Yaddo,...
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Sharon Olds and Rachel B. Glaser on Reality TVTexas Lane, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons . Over the past few years, Korean reality TV has been a source of inspiration for my...
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August 14–20: What the Review’s Staff Is Doing Next WeekMatt Berninger of the National. Photograph by Andy Witchger , licensed under CCO 2.0. Tonight, the sun will begin to set before 8 P.M....
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How the Booksellers of Paris Are Preparing for Next Summer’s OlympicsPhotograph by Jacqueline Feldman. “With a diving suit and helmet,” said Yannick Poirier, the owner of Tschann bookstore on the boulevard...
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Watch Jessica Laser Read “Kings” at the Paris Review OfficesOn August 3, the poet Jessica Laser visited the offices of the Review in Chelsea and treated us to a reading of her poem...
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The Paris Review Print Series: Shara HughesShara Hughes, The Paris Review , 2023, etching with aquatint, spit bit, soft ground, and drypoint on Hannemühle Copperplate bright white...
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Anti-Ugly ActionChelsea Barracks, by Tripe & Wakeham, 1960–62. “An outstanding exposition of the fact that very big buildings can keep their scale without...
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August 7–13: What the Review’s Staff is Doing Next WeekPerseid Meteor Shower. Licensed under CCO 2.0. This week, the Review ‘s s taff and friends are enjoying a drop in temperatures...
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The Restaurant Review, Summer 2023Flora season at Gem, photograph courtesy of the restaurant. The dessert landscape in New York is generally defined by extremes—by how far...
