Marie NDiaye. Photo: © Francesca Mantovani. No one is condemned to being human in the world of Marie NDiaye. People become birds, skulk home as…
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A Library Cam For Bird Lovers: Critical Linking, June 30, 2020
Critical Linking, a daily roundup of the most interesting bookish links from around the web is sponsored by our 1-year Audible subscription giveaway courtesy of…
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Staff Picks: Billboards, Bookstores, and Butler
Octavia E. Butler. Photo: Cheung Ching Ming. When the pandemic hit and we were suddenly living in a world I had never quite imagined, I…
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How to Keep Score in Your Story With Scene Goals
Imagine attending a football game with no rules. I don’t know about you, but there’s a limit to how excited I could get about watching…
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The Art of Distance No. 8
In March, The Paris Review launched The Art of Distance, a newsletter highlighting unlocked archive pieces that resonate with the staff of the magazine, quarantine-appropriate writing on the Daily, resources…
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Friday Fund Days (On Saturday): Drop Some Dollars and Help Some Classrooms
With the world being a difficult place for those of any marginalized background, one of the things those of us who are looking to do…
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Staff Picks: Slapstick, Stanzas, and Stuff
Michael Rips. Photo: Ric Ocasek. Cooped up at home, many of us are now being kept company by our stuff, that antifunctional classification of belongings…
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Poets on Couches: Saskia Hamilton
In this series of videograms, poets read and discuss the poems getting them through these strange times—broadcasting straight from their couches to yours. These readings…
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Staff Picks: Kentuckis, Kerchiefs, and Choreography
Samanta Schweblin. Photo: © Alejandra López. There has always been art that appears, in retrospect, to have been eerily prescient—Andy Warhol’s 1968 prediction of “fifteen…
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Staff Picks: Mums, Moms, and Mothers
Photo: Jane Breakell. In a paper gesture to the fistfuls of wilting dandelions offered by children, and beloved—surely!—by mothers all over the dandelion-growing world, I…
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