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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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\u201cA crush goes nowhere,\u201d Kathryn Davis\u00a0writes<\/a>\u00a0on the\u00a0Daily<\/em>\u00a0this week, in a piece adapted\u00a0from her forthcoming memoir,\u00a0Aurelia, Aur\u00e9lia<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s called a crush because it\u2019s like something landed on top of you, making movement impossible.\u201d Still, who doesn\u2019t love to nurture a crush every now and again? Flirtations, racing hearts, and fixations of all kinds\u00a0certainly abound in our archive. Read on for Italo Calvino\u2019s\u00a0awkward habit of \u201cfalling in love with foreign words\u201d as recalled by his translator William Weaver in an introduction to\u00a0The Art of Fiction no. 130<\/a>; dashed fantasies in\u00a0\u201cRainbow Rainbow<\/a>,\u201d Lydia Conklin\u2019s story of a teenage girl meeting her internet crush; Laurel Blossom\u2019s sly poem \u201cPlea to a Potential Lover<\/a>\u201d; and the photographer Prabuddha Dasgupta\u2019s\u00a0scenes of longing<\/a>\u00a0with accompanying text by Geoff Dyer.<\/p>\n

If you enjoy these free interviews, stories,\u00a0poems, and portfolios, why not\u00a0subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0The Paris Review<\/em>? You\u2019ll\u00a0get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door.<\/p>\n

Interview<\/em>
\nItalo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130<\/a>
\nIssue no. 124 (Fall 1992)<\/em><\/p>\n

Writers do not necessarily cherish their translators, and I occasionally had the feeling that Calvino would have preferred to translate his books himself. In later years he liked to see the galleys of the translation; he would make changes\u2014in his English. The changes were not necessarily corrections of the translation; more often they were revisions, alterations of his own text. Calvino\u2019s English was more theoretical than idiomatic. He also had a way of falling in love with foreign words. With the\u00a0Mr. Palomar<\/em>\u00a0translation he developed a crush on the word\u00a0feedback<\/em>. He kept inserting it in the text and I kept tactfully removing it. I couldn\u2019t make it clear to him that, like\u00a0charisma<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0input<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0bottom line<\/em>,\u00a0feedback<\/em>, however beautiful it may sound to the Italian ear, was not appropriate in an English-language literary work.<\/p>\n

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Fiction<\/em><\/span>
\nRainbow Rainbow<\/a>
\nBy Lydia Conklin
\nIssue no. 237 (Summer 2021)<\/em><\/p>\n

As soon as Heidi arrived at Kim\u2019s condo, she suggested they go meet Lisa\u00adParsonsTwo, Kim\u2019s online crush. Usually Kim was the rule-breaker, the wild girl whose mom let her do whatever she wanted, but Heidi hadn\u2019t been able to stop thinking about Lisa\u00adParsonsTwo since Kim had told her about their messages last week. When Heidi found out Kim\u2019s mom would be out for the evening, she\u2019d invited herself to sleep over.<\/p>\n

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Poetry<\/em><\/span>
\nPlea to a Potential Lover<\/a>
\nBy Laurel Blossom
\nIssue no. 65 (Spring 1976)<\/em><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t take me home, at least not yet;
\nLet\u2019s have another drink, and sit
\nand talk\u2014I want to be your woman,
\nbut there isn\u2019t any rush.
\nLet\u2019s take our time,
\nand think it out.<\/p>\n

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Art<\/em><\/span>
\nLonging<\/a>
\nBy Prabuddha Dasgupta & Geoff Dyer
\nIssue no. 200 (Spring 2012)<\/em><\/p>\n

In Prabuddha Dasgupta\u2019s photographic series\u00a0Longing<\/em>\u00a0there is a powerful suggestion of travel, of journeys that have merged into a single journey. There is evidence of arrival and departure, but the main sense is of transit, of looking back on what has been left, or forward to what is to come. The photographs are rarely\u00a0in<\/em>\u00a0the moment. The present tense flickers and is gone.<\/p>\n

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