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Staff Picks: Turkeys and French Cinema

Most accounts of turkeys in literature describe the process of hunting or cooking them (Teddy Roosevelt’s sketch of stalking the “peevish piou-piou! of the sleepy birds” is rather lovely, even though...

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Staff Picks: Alcoholics Anonymous, Hollywood Star Whackers

Clancy Martin. Photograph by David Eulitt. The cover story in this month’s issue of Harper’s: “The Drunk's Club,” by Clancy Martin. An irreverent, harrowing, tough-minded account of Martin’s experience...

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What We’re Loving: Don B., B. Dole, /u/backgrinder

“How hard was it to supply archers arrows in ancient battles?” Bryson Burroughs, The Archers, 1917. Sozzled novelists (aka, lit lit) seems to be the thing to write about lately, but it’s more fun to...

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Realism for Everyone

Donald Barthelme would’ve been, and should be, eighty-three today. It would be an exaggeration to say that I feel the absence of someone I never met—someone who died when I was three—but I do wonder,...

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Raskolnikov Meets the Caped Crusader, and Other News

Image via Open Culture If you’re having trouble getting serious reading done, you can go ahead and blame the Internet, which fosters deleterious skimming habits. “It was torture getting through the...

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The Birth (and Death) of Edward Lear

You’d think it would be easy to invent nonsense words. After all, the real lexical bummer usually rests in the burden of definition: your average neologism has to mean something. Nonsense words, on...

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Under the Volcano

John Gardner in 1979. Photo via Wikimedia Commons I think that the difference right now between good art and bad art is that the good artists are the people who are, in one way or another, creating,...

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On Paul Metcalf’s Genoa

Metcalf’s “poeticized collage” reckons with his great-grandfather, Herman Melville. Paul Metcalf It is extremely rare, these days, to encounter something that feels completely new. That is, most...

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The “Splendidly Cranky” Utopian: An Interview with Curtis White

Curtis White first came to public attention as a culture critic with his best-selling The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don’t Think for Themselves (2003). Dubbed “splendidly cranky” by Molly Ivins and...

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Ornery Little Critters

S. J. Perelman, ca. 1957.From a letter sent by S. J. Perelman to Betsy Drake, dated May 12, 1952. Perelman, one of the most popular humorists of his time, was born on this day in 1904; he died in 1979....

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Bastille Day Sale

George Plimpton loved Bastille Day. He also loved the Fourth of July and Saint Patrick’s Day—any event, really, that occasioned a parade and the shooting off of fireworks. “Ecstasy after ecstasy” and...

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Another Passionless Day

Our complete digital archive is now available. Subscribers can read every piece—every story and poem, every essay, portfolio, and interview—from The Paris Review’s sixty-four-year history. Subscribe...

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Staff Picks: Gasps, Giant Cubes, Gay Bars

  Toshio Matsumoto’s masterly 1969 debut about queer life in Toyko, Funeral Parade of Roses, has been playing in a beautiful new restoration this week at Quad Cinema; I walked down from our office...

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John Gardner’s Tricksy Death and Tangled Legacy

From the cover of John Gardner’s Grendel.   I think it has given a few readers pleasure. And I suppose it may have depressed a few. I hope it does more good than harm. —John Gardner, when asked what...

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Raskolnikov Meets the Caped Crusader, and Other News

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The Birth (and Death) of Edward Lear

You’d think it would be easy to invent nonsense words. After all, the real lexical bummer usually rests in the burden of definition: your average neologism has to mean something. Nonsense words, on...

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Under the Volcano

John Gardner in 1979. Photo via Wikimedia Commons I think that the difference right now between good art and bad art is that the good artists are the people who are, in one way or another, creating,...

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On Paul Metcalf’s Genoa

Metcalf’s “poeticized collage” reckons with his great-grandfather, Herman Melville. Paul Metcalf It is extremely rare, these days, to encounter something that feels completely new. That is, most...

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The “Splendidly Cranky” Utopian: An Interview with Curtis White

Curtis White first came to public attention as a culture critic with his best-selling The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don’t Think for Themselves (2003). Dubbed “splendidly cranky” by Molly Ivins and...

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Ornery Little Critters

S. J. Perelman, ca. 1957. From a letter sent by S. J. Perelman to Betsy Drake, dated May 12, 1952. Perelman, one of the most popular humorists of his time, was born on this day in 1904; he died in...

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