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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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Octavio Paz.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re resolving to read even more of our archive in the new year. Read on for Octavio Paz\u2019s Art of Poetry interview<\/a>, Rachel Cusk\u2019s \u201cFreedom<\/a>,\u201d and Margaret Atwood\u2019s poem \u201cWinter Vacations<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not\u00a0subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0The Paris Review<\/em>?\u00a0Or take advantage of our\u00a0new subscription bundle<\/a>, bringing you four issues of the print magazine, access to our full sixty-seven-year digital archive, and our new\u00a0TriBeCa tote<\/a>\u00a0for only $69 (plus free shipping!).<\/p>\n

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Octavio Paz, The Art of Poetry No. 42<\/a>
\nIssue no. 119 (Summer 1991)<\/em><\/p>\n

I am very fond of fireworks. They were a part of my childhood. There was a part of the town where the artisans were all masters of the great art of fireworks. They were famous all over Mexico. To celebrate the feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe, other religious festivals, and at New Year\u2019s, they made the fireworks for the town. I remember how they made the church facade look like a fiery waterfall. It was marvelous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Freedom<\/a>
\nBy Rachel Cusk
\nIssue no. 217 (Summer 2016)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s it called,\u201d Dale said, \u201cwhen you have one of those bloody great blinding flashes of insight that changes the way you look at things?\u201d<\/p>\n

I said I wasn\u2019t sure: a few different words sprang to mind.<\/p>\n

Dale twitched his paintbrush irritably.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something to do with a road,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Road to Damascus, I said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a road to Damascus moment,\u201d he said. \u201cLast New Year\u2019s Eve, of all times. I bloody hate New Year\u2019s. That was part of it, realizing that I bloody hated New Year\u2019s Eve.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Winter Vacations<\/a>
\nBy Margaret Atwood
\nIssue no. 234 (Fall 2020)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2026 Despite all this we\u2019re traveling fast,
\nwe\u2019re traveling faster than light.
\nIt\u2019s almost next year,
\nit\u2019s almost last year,
\nit\u2019s almost the year before:
\nfamiliar, but we can\u2019t swear to it.
\nWhat about this outdoor bar,
\nthe one with the stained-glass palm tree?
\nWe know we\u2019ve been here already.
\nOr were we? Will we ever be?
\nWill we ever be again?
\nIs it far?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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