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A Polyphonic Novel of Midcentury San Francisco
By Jessica Hagedorn
Emeric Pressburger’s Lost Nazi Novel
By Lucy ScholesPowell and Pressburger were behind some of the most influential films of the forties and fifties. Then Pressburger went on to write a novel far ahead of its time.
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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
How to Write a Poem About Noguchi
By Matthew ZapruderMatthew Zapruder shares the process through which a poem refines itself.
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Arts & Culture
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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Gail Scott’s Most Novel-Like Novel
By Eileen MylesGail Scott’s classic feminist novel ‘Heroine’ is something fabulously risky and alive.
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The Podcast Returns
By The Paris Review and Stitcher
From the Archive, Issue
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Susannah Hunnewell 1966-2019
By Mona SimpsonThe Paris Review lost a dear friend when Susannah Hunnewell, the publisher of the magazine, passed away on June 15. Susannah and I were once invited to a party. We met in the park at sunset and she decided, on a lark, that we should take a horse-drawn carriage. She kept asking the driver to make another turn, go farther uptown, east, then south and back, it was so beautiful, the buildings in the gold light towering around us. I’d lived in New York for twelve years but never ridden in a car…
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Miscellaneous
Stargazing
By Rita DoveThe sky is not a glass of anything; / it winks, it’s a parable, / the kind your mother told whenever / you’d been “wicked”—intense / but vague. The night sky swerves / to its seat, the show begins:
