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A Change in the Climate
By Michel Faber
Nick Tosches in a Trench Coat
By Brian CullmanHe was part accountant, part private eye, part stumblebum, but his passion was contagious, and he always listened to the B-sides.
The Daily
In Memoriam
Poetry Rx
By Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire SchwartzIn our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Kaveh Akbar is on the line.
Poetry Rx
Staff Picks: Four Damn Cellos
By The Paris ReviewThis week, the staff of ‘The Paris Review’ slips down the streets of SoHo, attends a film festival, and reads Deborah Levy’s latest.
The Daily
This Week’s Reading
Feminize Your Canon
By Emma GarmanOur monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors.
Feminize Your Canon
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A Polyphonic Novel of Midcentury San Francisco
By Jessica HagedornWith verve and a keen sense of the theatrical and the absurd, Karen Tei Yamashita’s ‘I Hotel’ explores what it means to be Asian American.
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Arts & Culture
The Crane Wife
By CJ HauserTen days after I called off my engagement I was supposed to go on a scientific expedition to study the whooping crane on the gulf coast of Texas.
From the Archive, Issue
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Susannah Hunnewell 1966-2019
By Mona SimpsonThe Paris Review lost a dear friend when Susannah Hunnewell, the publisher of the magazine, passed away on June 15. Susannah and I were once invited to a party. We met in the park at sunset and she decided, on a lark, that we should take a horse-drawn carriage. She kept asking the driver to make another turn, go farther uptown, east, then south and back, it was so beautiful, the buildings in the gold light towering around us. I’d lived in New York for twelve years but never ridden in a car…
In the Current Issue, Issue 230
Miscellaneous
Correspondence with His Publisher
By William Carlos WilliamsThe correspondence between James Laughlin and William Carlos Williams began late in 1933 at the instigation of their mutual friend, Ezra Pound. At the age of nineteen, Laughlin had met Pound in Rapallo, Italy, where he spent several months on a leave of absence from Harvard at Pound’s "Ezuversity,” a sort of informal seminar conducted by the poet. Suggesting that Laughlin would best serve literature by becoming a publisher, Pound put him in touch with many in his extensive network of literary co…
