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By The Paris ReviewThis week, we’ve lowered the paywall on Jeffrey Eugenides’s Art of Fiction interview, as well as his short story “The Virgin Suicides” and Jim Gustafson’s poem “Detroit.”
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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.
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The Missing Images of Chinese Immigrants
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By Susan Napier‘Princess Mononoke’ inaugurated a new chapter in Miyazakiworld. Ambitious and angry, it expressed the director’s increasingly complex worldview.
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By Jane BowlesOn certain days I forget why I’m here. Today once again wrote my husband all my reasons for coming. He encouraged me to come each time I was in doubt. He said that the worst danger for me was a state of vagueness, so I wrote telling him why I had come to the Hotel Henry—my eighth letter on this subject—but with each new letter I strengthen my position. I am reproducing the letter here.
From the Archive, Issue 56
Fiction
Dropping Acid at Aunt Bea and Uncle Harry’s 40th Wedding Anniversary Celebration
By Baron WormserThe little candles which dot the rosette-bedecked / Sheetcake sway so demurely that the happy / Huffing and puffing comes as a cosmic surprise, / An operatic act of gods. What a wind is this breath!
