From the Archive
Goodbye, Columbus
By Philip Roth
Redux: Miles of Mostly Vacant Lots
By The Paris ReviewThis week, we’ve lowered the paywall on Toni Morrison’s Art of Fiction interview, a poem by Philip Levine, and a short story by Gisela Elsner.
The Daily
Redux
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
Could The Baby-Sitters Club Have Been More Gay?
By Frankie ThomasThere were hundreds of books in the series, all of which took place in a heterosexual hellscape of babies and boyfriends as far as the eye could see.
The Daily
YA of Yore
Feminize Your Canon
By Emma GarmanOur monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors.
Feminize Your Canon
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Staff Picks: Medusa, Magic, and Moshfegh
By The Paris ReviewThis week, the staff of ‘The Paris Review’ considers Medusa, dreams of Whoopi, and walks a solid quarter mile of art.
The Daily
This Week’s Reading
Eat Your Words
By Valerie StiversCooking up recipes drawn from the works of various writers.
Eat Your Words
Guerre de Plume
By Martha GellhornApocryphal stories would not be worth worrying about if their inventors stuck to the spoken word. What’s a bit of bragging or slander among friends? But when these tales reach print they become accepted fact. No matter how implausible or self-serving, how spiteful or absurd, they are believed. Distinguished professors, scholars, biographers repeat and thus validate the fantasies of apocryphiars (new word). Built-in falsehood, children, is bad.
From the Archive, Issue 79
Letters & Essays
A Brief Correspondence Course
By Ron PadgettWhen I close a letter / with "Cordially," I / blush with shame. / It sounds insincere. / But when a letter / comes to me / with that same closing, / I glow with warmth. /
