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Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by\u00a0signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ali Smith, with Leo, in Cambridge, 2003.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re in an autumnal mood. Read on for Ali Smith\u2019s Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, the second part<\/a> of Katharine Kilalea\u2019s novel in serial OK, Mr. Field<\/em>, and Jane Hirshfield\u2019s poem \u201cAutumn<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ali Smith, The Art of Fiction No. 236<\/a>
\nIssue no. 221 (Summer 2017)<\/em><\/p>\n

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INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n

Were you pleased to see Autumn<\/em> referred to as \u201cthe first serious Brexit novel\u201d?<\/p>\n

SMITH<\/p>\n

Indifferent. What\u2019s the point of art, of any art, if it doesn\u2019t let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are? All the way through this book I\u2019ve used the step-back motion, which I\u2019ve borrowed from Dickens\u2014the way that famous first paragraph of A Tale of Two Cities<\/em> creates space by being its own opposite\u2014to allow readers the space we need to see what space we\u2019re in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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OK, Mr. Field<\/em> Part 2 (Autumn)<\/a>
\nBy Katharine Kilalea
\nIssue no. 224 (Spring 2018)<\/em><\/p>\n

Autumn arrived with a general spray of autumn color. It wasn\u2019t winter yet, but it would be; there was a hint in the air of the cold to follow. The village was quiet. The caf\u00e9s had covered their tables and upturned their chairs and the ice-cream shop had its roller shutters pulled shut. Waiters at the fish-and-chip shop loitered around with nobody to serve. The holidaymakers who\u2019d swarmed the bead shops and art galleries (I\u2019m looking for a painting with ocher in it, something to go with my Indian silk curtains<\/em>) had covered their sofas, locked their houses, and left.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Autumn<\/a>
\nBy Jane Hirshfield
\nIssue no. 109 (Winter 1988)<\/em><\/p>\n

Again the wind
\nflakes gold-leaf from the trees
\nand the painting darkens\u2014
\nas if a thousand penitents
\nkissed an icon
\ntill it thinned
\nback to bare wood,
\nwithout diminishment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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