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.
Paris Review - Writers, Quotes, Biography, Interviews, Artists
The Paris Review accepts unsolicited submissions of prose in February, June, and October and unsolicited submissions of poetry in January, April, July, and October.Submissions are accepted via Submittable until we reach capacity, as well as by mail (see the instructions below).. All submissions must be in English and must be previously unpublished. Translations are welcome and should be ...
A Figure Model’s (Brief) Guide to Poses through Art History
Dec 18, 2019 · On the model stand, I could take a graceful dancer’s stance, like one of the Three Graces in this Roman replica of a Hellenistic statue, perhaps draping my arm over a prop, like an unattended easel. Or maybe crouch low to the ground, my body twisted, like Aphrodite coyly adjusting her hair, in a typical depiction of the goddess.. Following the Classical period’s introduction of a more ...
Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 261
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 Laser. Olds also reads three of her poems: “Sisters of Sexual Treasure” (issue no. 74, Fall–Winter 1978), “True Love,” and “The Easel.”
What We Know of Sappho - The Paris Review
Dec 8, 2020 · As Nebuchadnezzar II is plundering Jerusalem, Solon ruling Athens, Phoenician seafarers circumnavigating the African continent for the first time, and Anaximander postulating that an indefinite primal matter is the origin of all things and that the soul is …
The Limits of Standard English - The Paris Review
Jan 7, 2020 · Few large groups of English speakers have borne as great a burden of stigma as black people. In the time of slavery, that stigma was enshrined in law—and even after emancipation, legal measures have been used to ensure that black people could not easily vote, could not access decent education and transportation, and so on.
The Paris Review - Arts and Culture News
4 days ago · In the Laurie Colwin novel Family Happiness, a mother and daughter get on the telephone to discuss the menu for an upcoming family dinner—either a roast leg of lamb or roast beef, with potatoes and, the mother says, “those lovely cold string beans of yours for a second vegetable.”Colwin writes: “On both sides of the line, mother and daughter settled down for the conversation they ...
The Seventy-Four Best Entries in The Devil’s Dictionary
Oct 25, 2017 · In my village, we have an idiom. “When’s last time you looked in on [X]—?” “X” is always some acknowledged literary classic everybody reads early in life and then forgets. For example, More’s Utopia. I did read it, but I might as well not have. I was nineteen. Anyone today who had just read […]
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 …
The Art of Fiction No. 183 - The Paris Review
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 Laser. Olds also reads three of her poems: “Sisters of Sexual Treasure” (issue no. 74, Fall–Winter 1978), “True Love,” and “The Easel.”