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Who Gets to Be a Mad Scientist?
By Hernan DiazIn a fit of enthusiastic madness I created a rational creature. —Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus Theatrical as it is, the cliché of the mad scientist—a wild-haired, goggle-eyed maniac pacing around a laboratory, operating…
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Windows
By Louis SimpsonThese are the houses of the poor— / Strange animals... they live in view... / That woman on the second floor, / There’s nothing that she wants to do.
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Poetry
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Staff Picks: Anti-Beach-Reads
By The Paris ReviewThis summer, we’re going long and hard. In anticipation of the solstice, the staff of The Paris Review has pulled together a list of anti-beach reads: doorstopper books, dense books, books that will tear a hole in your flimsy beach tote, flip ove…
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808 A.D.
By Damion SearlsNot too old, not young anymore, / almost three dozen years gone by. / Not a failure, not a success— / my first real job, a job to grow old in. / Some / potential, too lazy to use it: / I’d watch TV but I like the window more. / My money gets spent when I have it;
From the Archive, Issue 195
Poetry
The Gospel According to P——
By Victor LaValleI didn’t even know my brother existed until I was ten years old. His was a name I’d heard floating around, but I never actually attached it to a human being. Like how I know Napoleon was real, but when I imagine him I’m really only conjuring his portraits
From the Archive, Issue 193
Letters & Essays
The Conversion of the Jews
By Philip RothWhat Ozzie wanted to know was always different. The first time he had wanted to know how Rabbi Binder could call the Jews “The Chosen People” if the Declaration of Independence claimed all men to be created equal. Rabbi Binder tried to distinguish for him between political equality and spiritual legitimacy, but what Ozzie wanted to know, he insisted vehemently, was different. That was the first time his mother had to come.
