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\"Honore_Daumier,_Le_Charivari_-_Advice_to_Subscribers,_1840\"<\/a>

Honor\u00e9 Daumier, Advice to Subscribers<\/i>, 1840.<\/p><\/div>\n

Michel Houellebecq <\/strong>defends his controversial new novel<\/a>, Soumission<\/em>.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

How did the future look from the past? Jason Z. Resnikoff<\/strong> sees the sixties and seventies through\u00a0<\/a>2001 <\/em>and Alien<\/em>.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

In the early nineties,\u00a0Paul Thomas Anderson <\/strong>foun<\/a>d an inspirational teacher<\/a>:\u00a0David Foster Wallace.<\/strong><\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

Dan Piepenbring <\/strong>on the demise of R&B groups and the promise of D\u2019Angelo\u2019s new album<\/a>, Black Messiah<\/em>.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing interesting, at a very basic level, is sort of the point of telling a story in the first place<\/a>.\u201d Thomas Pierce<\/strong> talks to James Yeh<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

Michael Thomson <\/strong>on The Evil Within, <\/em>a horror video game that breaks all the rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

Five new paintings<\/a> by Mamma Andersson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

Ben Mauk<\/strong> visits Berlin\u2018s art book fair<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

Plus, Sadie Stein<\/strong> on the history of okay<\/em><\/a>; and a poem<\/a> by the late Stanislaw Baranczak<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michel Houellebecq defends his controversial new novel, Soumission. * How did the future look from the past? Jason Z. Resnikoff sees the sixties and seventies through\u00a02001 and Alien. * In the early nineties,\u00a0Paul Thomas Anderson found an inspirational teacher:\u00a0David Foster Wallace. * Dan Piepenbring on the demise of R&B groups and the promise of D\u2019Angelo\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13054],"tags":[154,15702,16559,16558,16519,16560,822,13518,15705,2151,16484,16534],"class_list":["post-81453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-case-you-missed-it","tag-david-foster-wallace","tag-icymi","tag-james-yeh","tag-jason-z-resnikoff","tag-mamma-andersson","tag-michael-thomson","tag-michel-houellebecq","tag-paul-thomas-anderson","tag-recaps","tag-sadie-stein","tag-stanislaw-baranczak","tag-thomas-pierce"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nIn Case You Missed It: This Week on the Paris Review Daily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A recap of the week\u2019s posts.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/11\/this-week-on-the-daily-8\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This Week on the Daily by Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"January 11, 2015 \u2013 Michel Houellebecq defends his controversial new novel, Soumission. * How did the future look from the past? 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