Our column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors. Alice Dunbar-Nelson In April 1895, the up-and-coming poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, whom Frederick…
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Category: Literature
Redux: Leaves Fall Off of the Trees
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…
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On Doulas
Still from Erykah Badu’s “Window Seat” In 2016, Erykah Badu performed at Chene Park, now called the Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre, a beautiful, outdoor waterfront venue…
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Redux: Self-Portrait as the Liberal Arts
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…
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Staff Picks: Monsters, Monuments, and Miranda July
Evan Rachel Wood as Old Dolio Dyne in Miranda July’s Kajillionaire. Photo courtesy of Focus Features. In California, you’re always waiting for the Big One.…
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Ramona Forever
I returned to Ramona Quimby for nostalgia. What I found was even better: a mystery. Beloved Portland, Oregon author Beverly Cleary wrote the Ramona books…
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c’s Portraits on Paper
Opening next week at the Morgan Library & Museum, “David Hockney: Drawing from Life” is the first major exhibition to focus on the artist’s portraits…
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Re-Covered: An Unconventional South African Novel
In her column, Re-Covered, Lucy Scholes exhumes the out-of-print and forgotten books that shouldn’t be. This month, she examines a South African writer whose unconventional…
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Redux: Each Rustle, Each Step
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…
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First Mothers
What if instead of a singular hero, we had many? Queen Nanny as she appears on Jamaica’s $500 bill I have been fascinated by Queen…
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