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Unconventional, Part 8: The Court Objects to Allen Ginsberg
Throughout the summer, Nathan Gelgud, a correspondent for the Daily, has been posting a weekly comic about the writers, artists, and demonstrators who attended the contested 1968 Democratic National...
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Amiri Baraka Is in Contempt
Nathan Gelgud has illustrated for The Paris Review, Nike, Random House, NYRB Classics, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Ford Foundation, and The Believer. He is one of the Daily’s correspondents.The post...
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It’s Time to Don Your Salt Gown, and Other News
Sigalit Landau’s salt gown emerging from the Dead Sea. Photo: Matanya Tausig.Today in occasions for self-satisfaction: a new study suggests that readers of literary fiction have an improved...
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The Spoil of Destruction
The house Thomas Mann described as “so completely my own” could be torn down.Mann, in 1941, at his Pacific Palisades home, with his wife, Katia, and two of their grandchildren.Thomas Mann’s house in...
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Women at Work: Irina Reyn and Emily Barton in Conversation
From left: Irina Reyn, Emily Barton.Last month, after her reading at the Golden Notebook bookstore in Woodstock, New York, Irina Reyn sat down for an onstage conversation with the novelist Emily...
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Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Revisited is a series in which writers look back on a work of art they first encountered long ago.Drawing of a house in the West Indies.In the summer of 1986, I finished secondary school, and that...
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In Which Our Writers Do Great Things
Detail from the cover of our new Fall issue, doubling here as a celebratory bouquet.On the shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize are two of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize winners, Ottessa...
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We Are All Suffering Equally
Artists reclaim the cells of England’s Reading Prison.Photo: Marcus J Leith. All images courtesy Artangel, 2016.Outside each cell at Reading Prison, there’s a small metal frame screwed into the wall....
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The Story in the Shadows: An Interview with Sjón
Photo: Gabriel Kuchta.Moonstone, Sjón’s latest novel, has been called “the gayest book in Iceland.” It follows the sixteen-year-old Máni Steinn, a queer hustler and cinephile whose life becomes upended...
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We Don’t Really Know Anything About Anything, and Other News
José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Girl with a Book, ca. 1875. William Trevor, an Irish writer who saw the short-story form as a chance to perfect “the art of the glimpse,” has died at eighty-eight. “His...
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On Swift
William Powell Frith, Jonathan Swift and Vanessa, 1881. Jonathan Swift is 349 years old today. Which is to say he’s beginning his 350th year. What was he anyway? Or never mind what he was; what did...
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Our Winter Issue: Rankine, Gray, Murray, and More
The interviews in our new Winter issue feature three writers who have defied received wisdom—writers who have expanded art’s role in the national conversation. The first is one of the most...
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Shirley Hazzard, 1931–2016
Photo: New York Society Library The call came at eleven at night. I was breathless, having raced inside to pick up. I’d been on my way out to dinner, and only a shot of curiosity at who might have...
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Delivering Packages to the Afterworld, and Other News
Jizo statues at Zōjō-ji Temple in Tokyo. Photo: Jakub Hałun Mainly writers are paid for cleaning your gutters, vacuuming under the seats in your car, and standing in line for you at the DMV. But...
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Alexia Arthurs Wins Plimpton Prize; Vanessa Davis Wins Terry Southern Prize
The Paris Review’s Spring Revel is coming up—tickets are available here—and our board has chosen the winners of two annual prizes for outstanding contributions to the magazine. It’s with great...
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Voyage to the Otherworld: A New Eulogy for Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury. At the end of February 2012, I was sitting in a bar in the Chicago Hilton, discussing Ray Bradbury. I was staying at the Hilton, and in a moment of Bradburian weirdness, I had been put...
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In Which Our Writers Do Great Things
Detail from the cover of our new Fall issue, doubling here as a celebratory bouquet. On the shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize are two of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize winners, Ottessa...
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We Are All Suffering Equally
Artists reclaim the cells of England’s Reading Prison. Photo: Marcus J Leith. All images courtesy Artangel, 2016. Outside each cell at Reading Prison, there’s a small metal frame screwed into the wall....
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The Story in the Shadows: An Interview with Sjón
Photo: Gabriel Kuchta. Moonstone, Sjón’s latest novel, has been called “the gayest book in Iceland.” It follows the sixteen-year-old Máni Steinn, a queer hustler and cinephile whose life becomes...
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We Don’t Really Know Anything About Anything, and Other News
José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, Girl with a Book, ca. 1875. William Trevor, an Irish writer who saw the short-story form as a chance to perfect “the art of the glimpse,” has died at eighty-eight. “His...
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