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Fra Angelico's Divine Emotion
By Cody Delistraty
Staff Picks: Cranberries, Canzones, and Catharsis
By The Paris ReviewThis week, the staff of ‘The Paris Review’ escapes New York, reads South Korean poetry, and learns about Julio Torres’s most treasured shapes.
The Daily
This Week’s Reading
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
On Proverbs
By Walter BenjaminJust one week after scorning those who choose to eat while reading novels, Walter Benjamin returns to argue the magic of proverbs.
The Daily
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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The Real Pirates of the Caribbean
By Michael Scott MooreA journalist taken hostage by Somali pirates returns to Disneyland
The Daily
Arts & Culture
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.
From the Archive, Issue
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Susannah Hunnewell’s Joie de Vivre
By The Paris ReviewThe Paris Review is mourning the loss of our publisher Susannah Hunnewell, who died June 15 at her home in New York at the age of fifty-two. In this post, we are gathering the intimate remembrances of those who knew her well.
Remembering Susannah Hunnewell
Korean Soap Opera
By John AshberyMy sister and I don’t seem to get along too well anymore. / She always has to have everything new in her house. Cherished ideals / don’t suit her teal, rust and eggshell color scheme. / Of course, I was a buyer when she was still on the street / peddling the Communist youth weekly. I have a degree / in marketing. Her boyfriend thinks I’m old-fashioned. / Well, I guess I do have an old-fashioned mentality.
