{"id":78183,"date":"2014-10-17T18:50:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T22:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=78183"},"modified":"2014-10-18T11:03:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T15:03:10","slug":"staff-picks-pirates-policemen-purple-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/17\/staff-picks-pirates-policemen-purple-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Picks: Pirates, Policemen, Purple Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_78197\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hurricane_watch0220.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78197\" class=\"wp-image-78197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hurricane_watch0220.jpg\" alt=\"Hurricane_Watch0220\" width=\"600\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hurricane_watch0220.jpg 688w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/hurricane_watch0220-300x259.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-78197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Wilson, <i>Hurricane Watch<\/i>, 1990, oil on canvas, 35&#8243; x 40&#8243;. Image via DC Moore Gallery.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 1965, Jane Wilson made <a href=\"http:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/products\/jane-wilson-untitled\">a print for <em>The Paris Review<\/em><\/a>. Hers was included in the first group offered by the magazine through its new print series; Wilson was joined in that inaugural endeavor by, among others, Helen Frankenthaler and Jane Freilicher, all of whom were cohorts in midfifties New York. Other than the print, I\u2019ve only ever seen one of Wilson\u2019s works, at a friend\u2019s house\u2014it\u2019s a sizable painting of a landscape\u2014but that\u2019s been enough to make me covet her artwork. DC Moore Gallery has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcmooregallery.com\/exhibitions\/2014-10-09_jane-wilson-at-90-east-village-east-end\" target=\"_blank\">nearly a dozen of these landscapes on view right now<\/a>, and they\u2019re stunning. At almost six feet square, the paintings are large, and their size is amplified by terrific expanses of sky that take up most of the picture space. And what skies: a full range of purples, golds, blues, and greens\u2014they appear as visions, as though you can see through time while only looking at the clouds.\u00a0 \u2014<strong>Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you call Pirate Joe\u2019s in Vancouver during off hours, you\u2019ll be greeted by the store\u2019s owner, Michael Hallatt, on the recording. \u201cWe do not sell Trader Joe\u2019s products,\u201d he says. \u201cYou might have heard we do; we don\u2019t. That would be unfair to Trader Joe\u2019s, to go down there and buy groceries from them. Say you bought like maybe a million dollars worth of groceries from them over three years, that would be grossly unfair.\u201d But that\u2019s exactly what Hallatt has done. Trader Joe\u2019s doesn\u2019t have a Canadian presence, so loopholes in a gray market allow Hallatt to resell Joe\u2019s groceries. <a href=\"http:\/\/priceonomics.com\/the-man-who-smuggles-traders-joes-into-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\">Priceonomics<\/a> has the full story, from Hallatt\u2019s early stock runs to Bellingham, Washington, and his subsequent ban from Trader Joe\u2019s locations to his ongoing lawsuit with the grocery chain. At the end of the day, this is a love story between a man and a store. \u201cHallatt\u2019s ultimate goal with Pirate Joe\u2019s is to \u2018bring\u2019 Trader Joe\u2019s to Canada\u2014before he had the store he would call them and just petition them, and he has always promised to close up shop if they ever expand north. In many ways, Hallatt would count this as the ultimate victory.\u201d\u00a0\u2014<strong>Justin Alvarez<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/computers-can-write-books-now-but-we-probably-dont-have-anything-to-worry-about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Melville House blog<\/a> introduced me to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/concept\/racter.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Policeman\u2019s Beard Is Half Constructed<\/a><\/em>, a\u2014novella? discourse? medium-length prose work?\u2014composed in the early eighties by an artificial intelligence called Racter (short for <em>raconteur<\/em>). Racter likely had some editorial assistance from good old-fashioned human beings, but even so, its work is affecting. There are moments when it has an eerily sophisticated grasp of these things we call \u201cemotions,\u201d all the complex longings that come with personhood: love, envy, hunger. And then there are moments when it sounds utterly robotic, almost autistic. A representative sample: \u201cA sturdy dove flies over a starving beaver. The dove watches the beaver and fantasizes that the beaver will chew some steak and lamb and lettuce. The beaver spies the dove and dreams of enrapturing and enthralling pleasures, of hedge-adorned avenues studded with immense pink cottages, of streets decorated with bushes and shrubs. The beaver is insane.\u201d \u2014<strong>Dan Piepenbring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was reluctant to read Don DeLillo\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781416546061?aff=theparisreview\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Falling Man<\/em><\/a>\u00a0because I don\u2019t remember how I felt on 9\/11; I was barely ten. My mom, an EMT, pulled me out of school and dropped me home with my dad before rushing to the train station where first-responders were meeting. I was in McDonald\u2019s eating a Big Mac when the South Tower fell. Eventually my brother and I got tired of watching my dad watch CNN; we went upstairs and watched <em>Dumb &amp; Dumber<\/em> on a nine-inch television instead. DeLillo shows incredible tact and poise in his navigation of such a delicate subject. The novel is bookended by short scenes that take place during the attacks. The imagery is vivid, horrifying, and pea-soupy with detail. But DeLillo\u2019s voice is strongest in his enigmatic mastery of the domestic. He doesn\u2019t attempt to evaluate fallout and fear on a national level. Instead, he shadows a single survivor who returns to his estranged wife and child. The brilliance of <em>Falling Man<\/em> isn\u2019t in shoving the reader back through the ashes of American flags but in exploring how the tragedy affected our understanding of memory, faith, and fear. \u2014<strong>Alex Celia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/oct\/14\/-sp-western-model-broken-pankaj-mishra\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><\/em>\u2019s \u201cThe Long Read\u201d this week, Pankaj Mishra critiques <em>The Fourth Revolution<\/em>, a new book by John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge (both editors at the <em>Economist<\/em>). It\u2019s beyond me how Mishra isn\u2019t completely exhausted from his tireless defense against that most damaging and useless binary, \u201cEast\/West.\u201d \u201cThe twentieth century was blighted by the same pathologies that today make the western model seem unworkable, and render its fervent advocates a bit lost,\u201d Mishra observes. Among the \u201cadvocates\u201d he takes to task are \u201csuch Panglosses of globalization as Thomas Friedman\u201d and Francis Fukuyama, whose pernicious \u201cinverted Hegelianiam\u201d must stop being consumed by the masses. Deftly showing how ISIS is \u201cthe latest incarnation\u201d of \u201cthe blood-splatted French revolutionary tradition\u201d and arguing that we must look to \u201chistorical specificity and detail\u201d rather than support totalizing ideologies, Mishra provides a much-needed, sober reading of the state of the world today. \u2014<strong>Charles Shafaieh<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1965, Jane Wilson made a print for The Paris Review. Hers was included in the first group offered by the magazine through its new print series; Wilson was joined in that inaugural endeavor by, among others, Helen Frankenthaler and Jane Freilicher, all of whom were cohorts in midfifties New York. 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