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The Grimacer of Beaune
From his upper lip a deeply etched wrinkle descends on either side of his mouth to his chin, which seems to swell and is ...
The Paris Review12d
A Pretty Girl, a Novel with Voices, and Ring-Tailed Lemurs
Extracts from forthcoming books by Kathryn Davis, Jane DeLynn, N. H. Pritchard, Katherine Rundell, and Izumi Suzuki.
The Paris Review1d
Kevin Killian’s Amazon Reviews, Part 1
From Selected Amazon Reviews, to be published by Semiotext (e) this month.
The Paris Review6d
The Peasant Emperor and the Retired Official
In 1985, a peasant named Zeng Yinglong declared his hometown in Sichuan Province an independent kingdom and proclaimed himself emperor. As a result, Zeng was charged with multiple counterrevolutionary ...
The Paris Review6d
The Hawk's Cry in Autumn
Wind from the northwestern quarter is lifting him high above ...
The Paris Review6d
The Review’s Review
The Canadian writer Sam Shelstad’s third book, The Cobra and the Key, is a funny and charming satire of writing advice and the people who give it. The book is in the form of a writing manual, and its ...
The Paris Review6d
The Power Plant Sestina
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica ...
The Paris Review6d
The Black Venus: For Max Ernst
of Sedona, Arizona, with a blank book for poems. Didn't we emerge from the same prehistoric egg amid sparks of jet & obsidian embedded in the hills of Montmartre? "Only Negroes can excite Paris." ...
The Paris Review6d
Photograph of My Father
Above the crescent of a colonnade. And he is standing on a gravel path Between turned-up rows of empty flower beds.
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When the Movie Theatre Closed
below and above them with pink.
The Paris Review6d
Dark Secrets, Erotic Words and Glances
the castigations and the bountiful.