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Redux: Mary Oliver and Francine du Plessix Gray
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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Staff Picks: Peasants, Postpartum, and Palestine
Kate Colby. Photo: Caroline Larabell. Kate Colby’s Dream of the Trenches is the book I never knew I needed. I wrote last week about my love for fiction about women interacting with art, and Colby’s...
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Somehow I Became Respectable
John Waters. Illustration by Ken Ingels. Somehow I became respectable. I don’t know how—the last film I directed got some terrible reviews and was rated NC-17. Six people in my personal phone book have...
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Illuminate I Could: On Lucille Clifton
Caroline and son. Courtesy of the Clifton family. What is our relationship to history? Do we belong to it, or is it ours? Are we in it? Does it run through us, spilling out like water, or blood? I...
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The Family Is Finished: On Memory, Betrayal, and Home Decor
The author’s parents at his grandmother’s home, celebrating their engagement. (All photographs and videos courtesy of Menachem Kaiser.) A couple of years ago, I sent my parents a chapter from the...
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Writing Is a Monstrous Act: A Conversation with Hernan Diaz
Novelist Hernan Diaz. Photograph by Pascal Perich. Money talks—so goes the truism—but rarely is it the subject of fiction. “Class? Sure. Exploitation? Absolutely. Money? Not so much,” Hernan Diaz...
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Chateaubriand on Writing Memoir between Two Societies
Charles Etienne Pierre Motte, The Surroundings of Dieppe, 1833, licensed under CC0 1.0, via Wikimedia Commons. François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848) was born in Saint-Malo, on the northern coast...
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Vivian Gornick Will Receive Our 2023 Hadada Award
Vivian Gornick. Photograph by Mitchell Bach. Courtesy of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. “I could hardly believe my luck in having found her,” Vivian Gornick writes of the persona she created for her...
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On Fantasy
Photograph by Iflwlou (拍攝), via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Steak is like sex, is like art: bloody; gets you high; is disgusting if you think about it for too long. And blue steak,...
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Molly
If you are contemplating self-destruction, please tell someone you trust. Immediate counseling is available 24-7 by dialing 1-800-SUICIDE or 988. A Sunday afternoon in early spring. We’d spent the...
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