Category: Literature

José Clemente Orozco, The Hanged Men from The American Scene, no. 1, 1933–34, published 1935. © 2020 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP,…

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Varlam Shalamov in 1929. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. “Every story of mine is a slap in the face of Stalinism,” Varlam Shalamov wrote to…

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On this archival recording, playwright August Wilson celebrates the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with a reading at the 92nd Street Y’s Unterberg Poetry…

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Sabrina Orah Mark’s monthly column, Happily, focuses on fairy tales and motherhood.         It is December in Georgia, and we are driving past…

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Louis Garrel as Professor Bhaer in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women Last week, my parents saw Little Women. My mother immediately phoned me. “I think Professor…

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Silvina Ocampo. Photo: Adolfo Bioy Casares. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. I love a good hundred-page novel. Too many books go for quantity over quality,…

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Robert Musil. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. I am looking at a photograph of a late-middle-aged man in a gray suit with broad lapels. He…

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Gertrude Stein said remarks are not literature. But hers are. Wittgenstein’s are. And the cases are related. Both are perverse. Perverse as anything. She, on…

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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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Jill Talbot’s column, The Last Year, traces the moments before her daughter leaves for college. It ran every Friday in November, and returns this winter month, then…

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