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Mr. Can’aan
By Isabella Hammad
Life After Empathy
By Paul YoungquistDriving cross-country some years ago, I pulled off Interstate 76, among the arroyos and tumbleweed at Fort Morgan, Colorado. Philip K. Dick lay buried somewhere in the cemetery there. But where? At the public library, a sweet old lady volunteer fli…
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On Film
Barbara, Wanda
By Nathalie LégerIt seemed simple enough. All I had to do was write a short entry for a film encyclopedia. No need to put your heart and soul into it, the editor had said on the phone. This time, I was very sure of myself. Convinced that in order to keep it short you need to know a great deal, I immersed myself in the history of the United States, read through the history of the self-portrait from antiquity to modern times, digressing to take in some sociological research about women from the 1950s a…
From the Archive, Issue 218
Letters & Essays
With a Bang: An Interview with Eleanor Antin
By Erik MorseEleanor Antin began her career as a stage actress and painter-cum-assemblagist in the late 1950s. She was inspired by the techniques of Yiddish theater and Michelangelo Antonioni, as well as those of Marcel Duchamp and Fluxus. Her versatile art …
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Life into Art
By James SalterWhen James Salter died in June, at the age of ninety, the Review lost one of its defining voices. Over the past four decades, Jim published short stories, reminiscences, and an Art of Fiction interview in the Review
From the Archive, Issue 214
Letters & Essays
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Staff Picks: Foxes, Unicorns, and Ghostworms
By The Paris ReviewYrsa Daley-Ward’s new collection, bone, opens with a small explosion, a two-line poem called “Intro”: “I am the tall dark stranger / those warnings prepared you for.” The poems that follow pick up the dual meaning here—of threat and of …
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This Week’s Reading
Across the Veld
By Nadine GordimerThe combis that, sending gusts of taped reggae and mbaqanga into the traffic, transport blacks back and forth between township and city, now carry a strange cargo of whites. The street committee in the black township has advised that this is the way to bring them in, the nature of the vehicles in themselves giving the signal to the people that these envoys from outside the siege are approved.
From the Archive, Issue 113
Fiction
Portfolio - Hans Enri
By Hans ErniHans Erni came to Paris from his native Switzerland in 1927 to study architecture. He dropped his studies in favor of painting and gave to the art world his prodigious ability as a draughtsman coupled with a furious pace of production.Now, forty-four years of age he has exhibited in every major capital of Europe, from London to Prague. At the present time he has three exhibition running simultaneously, in Chicago, Copenhagen, and in Paris, at the Kléber Galleries. Equally gifted in temper…
From the Archive, Issue 4
Art & Photography
The Summer Fire
By Owen DodsonThe night Coin Foreman was returned home from his wanderings, the Corinthian Baptist Church of Christ burned to the ground in a five alarm fire. Along Berriman Street the news was flashed from open window to open window by popped out heads and mouths and mouths working into the disaster gossip like fast scissors.
