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Ashes to Ashes, Eel to Eel
By Patrik Svensson
A Letter to The Professor Whose Name I Carry
By Malcolm TariqYou were with us for only a month before cancer caused you to take a leave of absence. Inside the classroom, we studied. Outside, I wept.
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Arts & Culture
Fuck the Bread. The Bread Is Over.
By Sabrina Orah MarkWhat does it mean to be worth something? Or worth enough? Or worthless? What does it mean to earn a living?
Happily
Redux
By The Paris ReviewIn honor of Pride, we’ve lowered the paywall on pieces by Jeanette Winterson, Jericho Brown, Timothy Liu, and Jan Morris.
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Redux
Feminize Your Canon
By The Paris ReviewOur monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors.
Feminize Your Canon
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American, Indian
By Jaswinder BolinaLike every other child of immigrants here, first-generation or fifth-, my distance, my detachment, and my ignorance make me an American.
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First Person
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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Perfection
By Sarah MangusoI.For years I could barely write a page. I thought I was becoming a virtuoso of smallness while the grief, which is wordless, occupied an ever-greater volume. My friend lived in the estates on the bad side of town. Let’s go to the forest, she said when I went over to play. There were three trees in the yard, but if you know where to stand, you can get lost in a forest of three trees. She could do it. She had to. Her mother died when we were nine.When I was an “emerging” artist I wanted onl…
