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Cooking with Varlam Shalamov
By Valerie Stivers
Poets on Couches: Lynn Melnick
By Lynn MelnickLynn Melnick reads a Sharon Olds poem about finding sensuality in unlikely places.
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Poets on Couches
Poetry Rx
By Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire SchwartzIn our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Kaveh Akbar is on the line.
Poetry Rx
Why Certain Illnesses Remain Mysterious
By Sarah RameySarah Ramey lays out ten reasons that conditions such as Lyme disease and chronic fatigue syndrome have eluded our understanding.
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Arts & Culture
Feminize Your Canon
By The Paris ReviewOur monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors.
Feminize Your Canon
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Quarantine Reads: ‘Faces in the Water’
By Francesca WadeRecently, I’ve found myself drawn to stories about women locked up.
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Quarantine Reads
The Crane Wife
By CJ HauserTen days after I called off my engagement I was supposed to go on a scientific expedition to study the whooping crane on the gulf coast of Texas.
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The Paris Review Podcast Season 2
By The Paris Review and StitcherToni Morrison, Philip Roth, Jason Alexander, Charlotte Rampling, Danez Smith, Sarah Manguso, Salman Rushdie, Molly Ringwald, Jenny Slate, Devendra Banhart, and more
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Diary of a Country Mouse
By Jesse BallThursday, 10 December. Giles shows us the sample mice and I am, as if for the first time, overcome with joy. Perhaps when I was a child I had feelings like this—but not in many years. I look, for instance, at a small gray mouse, smaller than the others, and it is as if I am seeing (anything) for the first time. He moves among his neighbors so swiftly and yet without error—as if on a track, as if held up by threads from above that prompt him. For reasons I cannot yet fathom, the edge of t…
