{"id":148836,"date":"2020-11-03T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T18:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=148836"},"modified":"2020-11-03T12:58:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T17:58:20","slug":"redux-a-world-awash-in-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/11\/03\/redux-a-world-awash-in-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: A World Awash in Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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Claudia Rankine. Photo: John Lucas. Courtesy of Graywolf Press.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week, The Paris Review<\/em> is dwelling on politics, literature, and the U.S. election. Read on for Claudia Rankine\u2019s Art of Poetry interview<\/a>, Matthew Baker\u2019s short story \u201cWhy Visit America<\/a>,\u201d and Martha Hollander\u2019s poem \u201cElection Night<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Claudia Rankine, The Art of Poetry No. 102<\/a>
\nIssue no. 219, Winter 2016<\/em><\/p>\n

The relationship between public engagement and private thought are inseparable for me. I worked on Citizen<\/em> on and off for almost ten years. I wrote the first piece in response to Hurricane Katrina. I was profoundly moved by the events in New Orleans as they unfolded. John and I taped the CNN coverage of the storm without any real sense of what we intended to do with the material. I didn\u2019t think, obviously, that I was working on Citizen<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But for me, there is no push and pull. There\u2019s no private world that doesn\u2019t include the dynamics of my political and social world. When I am working privately, my process includes a sense of what is happening in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Why Visit America<\/a>
\nBy Matthew Baker
\nIssue no. 230, Fall 2019<\/em><\/p>\n

And yet that winter we found ourselves united by a common sentiment. We were fed up with our country. The executives were busy making donations that funded the campaigns of the politicians, the politicians were busy passing laws that protected the interests of the executives, and pretty much nothing else seemed to be getting done. We were antigovernment, we were anticorporate, but mostly we were normal people who couldn\u2019t afford to buy an election and had come to understand that our votes didn\u2019t mean shit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Election Night<\/a>
\nBy Martha Hollander
\nIssue no. 145, Winter 1997<\/em><\/p>\n

The first Tuesday in this warm November
\nbrushes Long Island in a last caress
\nbefore winter repels our communities
\nlike a storm door slamming on a windy day.
\nGentle enough, in fact, for the beach.
\nHere to beckon to the Indian sunset
\nare joggers with their superb, joyful dogs,
\na few rebels beating the commute,
\nand a pair of lovers murmuring to the crunch
\nof sand in the folds of their heavy leather jackets.
\nChange, they all desire change, a radiant
\nnew face, or a world awash in truth \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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