The Paris Review8d
A Pretty Girl, a Novel with Voices, and Ring-Tailed Lemurs
Extracts from forthcoming books by Kathryn Davis, Jane DeLynn, N. H. Pritchard, Katherine Rundell, and Izumi Suzuki.
The Paris Review11d
The City Is Covered in Snow: From the Notebooks of Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk is the author of twelve novels, the memoir Istanbul, three works of nonfiction, and two photography books, and the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. Memories of Distant ...
The Paris Review5d
The Jewish Furrier Explains the Search for Beauty
Remember where I came from. Think of a continent of sabled czars. Leave your home. Let exile fill your mouth like the lost language of the child. Understand the reason. A man who would not wear the ...
The Paris Review5d
The Color of Neville Brand's Front Teeth
mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.
The Paris Review5d
Klimt and Schiele Confront the Cunt
turned impotent, and had to be divorced. The nineteenth century, for all its love ...
The Paris Review9d
There Is Only One Clique and You Are the Only One
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica ...
The Paris Review9d
The Hawk's Cry in Autumn
Wind from the northwestern quarter is lifting him high above ...
The Paris Review9d
The Dead Soldier's Talk
I’m tired of lying here. The mountain and the river are not bad.
The Paris Review9d
The Black Venus: For Max Ernst
of Sedona, Arizona, with a blank book for poems. Didn't we emerge from the same prehistoric egg amid sparks of jet & obsidian embedded in the hills of Montmartre? "Only Negroes can excite Paris." ...
The Paris Review9d
Found Poem: Wind Fells Oklahoma's Ancient Chimney Rock
WANOKA (AP) Chimney Rock, which stood for centuries on the Oklahoma plain as a towering guide for covered wagons crossing the treacherous Cimarron River, has fallen victim to the same forces which ...