{"id":94121,"date":"2016-02-04T09:26:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T14:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=94121"},"modified":"2016-02-04T10:20:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T15:20:19","slug":"six-sweet-hours-of-arabian-nights-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/04\/six-sweet-hours-of-arabian-nights-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Sweet Hours of <i>Arabian Nights<\/i>, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_94123\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anv32-1600x900-c-default.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94123\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94123\" class=\"wp-image-94123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anv32-1600x900-c-default.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anv32-1600x900-c-default.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anv32-1600x900-c-default-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anv32-1600x900-c-default-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/anv32-1600x900-c-default-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from Miguel Gomes\u2019s <i>Arabian Nights<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>So you published one of the most lauded, beloved, fiercely debated novels of 2015\u2014what now? A new thrill can be hard to come by. Hanya Yanagihara has elected to follow her success by swimming across Martha\u2019s Vineyard. Just because. \u201cSwimming,\u201d she writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/04\/t-magazine\/hanya-yanagihara-swims-marthas-vineyard.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">is the writer\u2019s sport, because it is the sport most like writing. To swim, as to write, is to choose an intense state of socially acceptable aloneness<\/a>. You can be a serious runner or bicyclist and still have to occasionally nod at a passerby or negotiate traffic. Swimming, however, precludes interaction with the world. When Anne Sexton won a fellowship from Radcliffe in 1961, she used the money to build herself a pool, which has always seemed to me a sensible artistic decision, if those two adjectives can ever be paired \u2026 There is no better place to unkink a complicated piece of invented logic than in the water\u2014there is little else to do, in fact, but confront your problems.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The Coen brothers are back with <em>Hail, Caesar!<\/em>, which, as you\u2019ve probably heard, is about a brutish studio fixer in the golden age of Hollywood. Richard Brody sees it as a meditation on faith: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/richard-brody\/the-coen-brothers-marvellous-hail-caesar\" target=\"_blank\">The Coen brothers are into belief systems\u2014big and seemingly backward ideas that overcome contradictions with a leap of faith\u2014and <em>Hail, Caesar!<\/em> is full of them<\/a> \u2026 The Coens see the absurdity and the narrowness in the grandeur of the Hollywood mythology on which they were raised. Movies are different now because the people who make them don\u2019t\u2014and can\u2019t\u2014exercise the same sort of plenipotentiary power; because studio heads are no longer godlike; because studios as such, with their closed complexes of soundstages and paternalistic control over actors\u2019 lives, no longer exist. Yet the Coens look back upon those movies with a specific nostalgia for a lost faith. The religion that the Coens grew up with wasn\u2019t Christianity, but it was the American religion\u2014Hollywood.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Hey, they made a new movie of <em>Arabian Nights<\/em>! Imagine the pageant of exotic images to come as Scheherazade tells his stories! And then stop imagining it, because Miguel Gomes\u2019s <em>Arabian Nights<\/em>, as Adam Thirlwell writes, has another set of references in mind: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2016\/02\/03\/thousand-movies-miguel-gomes-arabian-nights\/\" target=\"_blank\">There are no sherbets, no hunting parties, no silks: this movie employs a different vocabulary of cigarettes, drizzle, plastic signs, and metal fences<\/a> \u2026 The movie lasts more than six hours, and is divided into three parts\u2014\u2018The Restless One,\u2019 \u2018The Desolate One,\u2019 and \u2018The Enchanted One\u2019\u2014each of which is in turn divided into three or four named stories, which vary in length but which each last roughly thirty to forty-five minutes. It\u2019s a long film that is also a series of shorts. To make the movie, Gomes set up a troupe: a mini office of investigative journalists, whose job was to come to him with raw material from Portugal\u2019s recession.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>How did Joan Didion make the leap from litterateur to legend? That\u2019s the kind of rhetorical question only <em>Vanity Fair <\/em>could answer. In the process, Lili Anolik probes the recesses of Didion\u2019s marriage to John Gregory Dunne: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/2016\/02\/joan-didion-writer-los-angeles#8\" target=\"_blank\">Dunne wasn\u2019t Didion\u2019s match artistically. Not so much a slight as it might sound. Dunne was a fine writer; Didion just happens to be more than that<\/a>. And he seemed to have accepted his second-best status \u2026 \u2018John told Brian [Moore, the Irish novelist] he was walking on the beach one night and he ran into Jesus and Jesus said, \u201cI love your wife\u2019s work!\u201d \u2019 \u2026 That Didion could wipe the floor with Dunne anytime she chose must\u2019ve been disturbing for him. And confusing. The girl he\u2019d married, a slip of a thing, bookish and wallflowerish, turned out to be this spooky genius, a poet of paranoia or possibly a clairvoyant of paranoia fulfilled.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>As e-books sales begin to slump, one digital publisher is doubling down by putting out \u201cunprintable books\u201d: \u201cPeople like to talk about how physical books have qualities that don\u2019t transfer well to digital \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/feb\/03\/publishers-developers-digital-technology-unprintable-fiction-google-editions-play\" target=\"_blank\">We want to show that digital books can have narrative and visual qualities that champion writing but can\u2019t be transferred to print<\/a>. You wouldn\u2019t really sit and read a novel while at your desktop would you? You\u2019re more likely to curl up on your sofa or armchair and read a book\u2014and you can do that on your phone just as easily as you can with a paperback.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you published one of the most lauded, beloved, fiercely debated novels of 2015\u2014what now? A new thrill can be hard to come by. Hanya Yanagihara has elected to follow her success by swimming across Martha\u2019s Vineyard. Just because. \u201cSwimming,\u201d she writes, \u201cis the writer\u2019s sport, because it is the sport most like writing. 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