Paris Review - Writers, Quotes, Biography, Interviews, Artists
The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.
The Trouble with Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Paris Review
Mar 11, 2021 · Mitchell administered this cure of extended bed rest and isolation to intellectual, active white women of high social standing. Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and Jane Addams all took the cure, which could last for weeks, sometimes months. Gilman was clearly disgusted with her experience, and her disgust is palpable.
The Paris Review - John Gardner’s Tangled Legacy
Sep 14, 2017 · I hope it does more good than harm. —John Gardner, when asked what effect he thinks his writing has had on people, in conversation in The Paris Review, issue no. 75 (Spring 1979). Two weeks before his third wedding, John Gardner, novelist and writing teacher, was drifting in a small boat on a lake in the middle of the night, despairing.
Jeffrey Eugenides on “Car-Crash While Hitchhiking” - The Paris …
Dec 26, 2016 · All this Denis Johnson does in a little over a thousand words. By conflating registers of time and tone, he delivers a narrative where the personal brushes up against the eternal, all from a single incident, or accident, on a rainy night. This essay appeared in Object Lessons: ‘The Paris Review’ Presents the Art of the Short Story.
The Paris Review - Yeats’s “Second Coming”—Our Most …
Apr 7, 2015 · The widening gyre of heavy-handed allusions to Yeats’s “The Second Coming.” A recent Russia Today headline suggests that Europe is “slouching towards anxiety and war.” According to the title of Robert Bork’s latest best seller, the United States is Slouching Towards Gomorrah. A new book by W. C. Harris, an English professor, claims we’re Slouching Towards …
The Paris Review - Hannah Arendt, Poet - The Paris Review
Sep 27, 2024 · Unemotional, anti-Romantic, and doggedly insistent on expunging unruly feelings from collective life, Arendt may seem to possess the least lyrical of temperaments, but a new volume of her poetry reveals that the author of sobering works like The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Human Condition was writing ardent and intimate verse in her off ...
Making of a Poem: Eliot Weinberger on “The Ceaseless Murmuring …
Apr 4, 2024 · For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Eliot Weinberger’s “The Ceaseless Murmuring of Innumerable Bees” appears in our new Spring issue, no. 247. How did this poem start for you?
Paris Review - Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison 1913–1994. Ralph Waldo Ellison was born on March 1, 1913, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and named after Ralph Waldo Emerson. After attending Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute, the prestigious all-black university founded by Booker T. Washington, he moved to New York City, where he became involved with the Communist Party and wrote for numerous journals and …
The Paris Review - Safe camp - The Paris Review
September 25, 2024. Poetry. Photograph courtesy of the author. I was still but tried, in a burst it’s all lit up by. In the quiet permission. I took my unit of heart and wondered if it was enough. Can’t in cannot, the backwater was canceled. So a quiet commercial. Could play inside instead.
Making of a Poem: Sara Gilmore on “Safe camp” - The Paris Review
Sep 25, 2024 · On Poetry. From Ernst Lehner’s Symbols, Signs and Signets. For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Sara Gilmore’s poems “ Mad as only an angel can be ” and “ Knowing constraint ” appear in the new Fall issue of the Review, no. 249. The poem she discusses here ...