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A Visit with Patrick Leigh Fermor: Part 1

Patrick Leigh Fermor, center, with members of the General Heinrich Kreipe Abduction Team: Georgios Tyrakis, William Stanley Moss, Emmanouil Paterakis, and ...

May 17, 2013 04:29 PM

Plimpton! Pitches

Writes filmmaker Tom Bean, “George’s first piece of ‘participatory journalism’ was to pitch in a baseball all-star game at Yankee Stadium in 1958. He ...

May 17, 2013 02:07 PM

What We’re Loving: Rilke, Revolution, and Wild Places

Even if you’ve been reading Janet Malcolm for years, the critical appreciations collected in Forty-one False Starts may surprise you. The title essay is (or ...

May 17, 2013 12:41 PM

Pomp and Circumstance

We won’t pretend to be completely disinterested, but we genuinely believe a two- or three-year subscription to The Paris Review is a great graduation gift. ...

May 17, 2013 10:32 AM

Necessary Words, and Other News

In Japanese, tsundoku means “the act of buying books and not reading them, leaving them to pile up.” The Cocktail Chart of Film and Literature is quite an ...

May 17, 2013 09:30 AM

Scenes Not Included in Henry James’s The Ambassadors (NSFW)

Part First In the evening of his first day in Europe, Lambert Strether anxiously imagines sucking his friend Waymarsh’s cock. He hasn’t ever sucked ...

May 16, 2013 03:36 PM | 10 comments