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America’s Dead Souls
By Molly McGheeShortly after I picked up ‘Dead Souls,’ my mother died a gruesome, absurd death, and I quickly found that Gogol’s surrealism was not so surreal after all.
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Staff Picks: Jungles, Journeys, and Jealousy
By The Paris ReviewThis week, the staff of ‘The Paris Review’ reads Rachel Cusk, Rita Mae Brown, and Cheswayo Mphanza.
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This Week’s Reading
Feminize Your Canon
By The Paris ReviewOur monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors.
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Cooking with Sigrid Undset
By Valerie StiversIn honor of Sigrid Undset’s epic of medieval Norway, Valerie Stivers cooks up barley bread, beef stew, and gingerbread cookies.
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Eat Your Words
Eat Your Words
By Valerie StiversCooking up recipes drawn from the works of various writers.
Eat Your Words
The Paris Review Podcast Season 2
By The Paris Review and StitcherToni Morrison, Philip Roth, Jason Alexander, Charlotte Rampling, Danez Smith, Sarah Manguso, Salman Rushdie, Molly Ringwald, Jenny Slate, Devendra Banhart, and more
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New and Recent Work
By Paige Jiyoung MoonThis spring, with the world still in on-again, off-again lockdown, our memories of seasons past grow sweeter. The California-based artist Paige Jiyoung Moon makes a practice of recording her memories in paint.
