The Paris Review
Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.
Interview Doris Lessing, The Art of Fiction No. 102 Issue no. 106 (Spring 1988) When I was bringing up a child I taught myself to write in very short concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a&hell
This week, the staff of ‘The Paris Review’ considers the grand roulette of Hollywood, admires casts of smooshed clay, and delights in Anne Boyer tweets by the dozen.
Hilma af Klint's strange spiritual works predate those of any other abstract painter by several years. Long unknown, she is now the subject of a retrospective at the Guggenheim.
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Through a dark winter In a cold chambre de bonne I lay still and dreamt
And as we lose our grip On every real thing in the world Settling for its glitter
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She never knew one of us from another, so my brothers and I grew up fighting Over our mother’s mindLike sun-colored suitors in a Greek myth. We were willingTo do evil. We kept choco
Arts & Culture In Praise of the Photocopy By Alejandro Zambra “Now that photocopies are on the wane, I can’t help but feel a bit nostalgic, and I can’t bring myself to throw them out; every once i