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Auguri, Frederick Seidel!
James Brown, Planet (Pink and Grey) VI, 2006, oil and pencil on linen. Frederick Seidel has received some unusual tributes in recent years. Writing in n+1, Philip Connors credited Seidel’s poetry with...
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Happy Birthday, J. P. Donleavy
“Writing: turning one’s worst moments into profit.” —J. P. Donleavy
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Beatrix Potter, “Study of a Spider”
Via Victoria and Albert Museum. Yes, she may be known for her anthropomorphic animals, but Beatrix Potter’s studies of local flora and fauna show an entirely different side: that of the committed...
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Happy Birthday, Sara Teasdale
With the man I love who loves me not I walked in the street-lamps’ flare — But oh, the girls who ask for love In the lights of Union Square. —Sara Teasdale, “Union Square”
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Magritte Shaving
René Magritte, Les valeurs personnelles (Personal Values), 1952, oil on canvas. Image via SFMOMA René Magritte was born on this day in 1898. Louis Simpson’s poem “Magritte Shaving” appeared in our...
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A Very Sticks Angelica Christmas
Michael DeForge’s short-story series Lose has been nominated for or has won every major comics award, including the Eisner and Ignatz awards. His illustrations have been published in the New York...
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Redux: Miles of Mostly Vacant Lots
Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to...
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Novels Defeat the Law of Diminishing Returns
César Aira. Photo: Nina Subin. You can’t write a novel the night before dying. Not even one of the very short novels that I write. I could make them shorter, but it still wouldn’t work. The novel...
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