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Salka Viertel’s Forgotten Account of Old Hollywood
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Staff Picks: Decadence, Doodles, and Deep Ends
Ana Luísa Amaral. Photo: Mattias Blomgren (CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)), from Wikimedia Commons. If you think of poetry as a language at its purest and most distilled,...
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Skate Escape: On Minding the Gap
Zack Mulligan and Keire Johnson in Minding the Gap. Photo: Bing Liu. In 1949, Life magazine called my hometown of Rockford, Illinois, a place as “nearly typical of the U.S. as any city can be.” Today...
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Staff Picks: Features, Films, and Flicks
Still from Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here. Photo courtesy of StudioCanal. You Were Never Really Here is a disturbing and poetic piece of cinema. I don’t know whether it’s my favorite movie...
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Redux: Eerie Fictions of the Afternoon
Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to...
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The Wayward Life of Gladys Bentley
Gladys Bentley. Public domain. If Gladys Bentley’s life were an Oscar Micheaux film, it might open with a shot of the three-story tenement house in Philadelphia in which the entertainer grew up. Four...
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Ennio Morricone Plays Chess
Collage with modified images. Ennio Morricone photo: Gonzalo Tello. Chess photo: David Lapetina (CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)). Ennio Morricone is responsible for some...
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Athena, Goddess of Copyediting
Ancient pottery depicting Athena and Enceladus fighting. Louvre Museum. Public domain. My first exposure to Greek mythology was at the Lyceum—not the famed Lykeion in Athens, where Aristotle and his...
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Staff Picks: Bangs, Barbie, and Bodies
Charif Shanahan. Photo: Rachel Eliza Griffiths. I worry that I never quite say what I mean. I think about this especially when talking (and writing) about books. Using language to describe other...
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Salka Viertel’s Forgotten Account of Old Hollywood
Salka Viertel with Greta Garbo. Back in the day (the late thirties and early forties), many of the Central European cultural émigrés in flight from Hitler’s depredations back home who’d found...
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Staff Picks: Decadence, Doodles, and Deep Ends
Ana Luísa Amaral. Photo: Mattias Blomgren (CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)), from Wikimedia Commons. If you think of poetry as a language at its purest and most distilled,...
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Staff Picks: Forensic Files, Fireflies, and Frigid Nights
Halle Butler. Photo: Jerzy Rose. Three pages into Halle Butler’s forthcoming novel The New Me, misanthropic Millie jokes about wishing she had a home intruder for company. Reading this, I immediately...
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Skate Escape: On Minding the Gap
Zack Mulligan and Keire Johnson in Minding the Gap. Photo: Bing Liu. In 1949, Life magazine called my hometown of Rockford, Illinois, a place as “nearly typical of the U.S. as any city can be.” Today...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Staff Picks: Features, Films, and Flicks
Still from Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here. Photo courtesy of StudioCanal. You Were Never Really Here is a disturbing and poetic piece of cinema. I don’t know whether it’s my favorite movie...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Redux: Eerie Fictions of the Afternoon
Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to...
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The Wayward Life of Gladys Bentley
Gladys Bentley. Public domain. If Gladys Bentley’s life were an Oscar Micheaux film, it might open with a shot of the three-story tenement house in Philadelphia in which the entertainer grew up. Four...
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Ennio Morricone Plays Chess
Collage with modified images. Ennio Morricone photo: Gonzalo Tello. Chess photo: David Lapetina (CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)). Ennio Morricone is responsible for some...
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Athena, Goddess of Copyediting
Ancient pottery depicting Athena and Enceladus fighting. Louvre Museum. Public domain. My first exposure to Greek mythology was at the Lyceum—not the famed Lykeion in Athens, where Aristotle and his...
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Staff Picks: Bangs, Barbie, and Bodies
Charif Shanahan. Photo: Rachel Eliza Griffiths. I worry that I never quite say what I mean. I think about this especially when talking (and writing) about books. Using language to describe other...
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