Claudia Rankine on Sampsonia Way, Photo © Renee Rosensteel According to Jamaican-born poet Claudia Rankine, “the realm of poetry is everything.” In her ambitious fourth collection Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, readers will find private reflection […]
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As he sits back locked in his room isolating himself from the world he cradles back and forth too afraid to even think as if it will harm him so just as himself he also keeps […]
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My name is Huang Xiang. I was born in 1941 on December 26 in Wugang in Guidong county Hunan province. My father was a general. I was raised by my paternal grandparents. China was so was […]
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The protagonist of Jim Powell’s debut novel The Breaking of Eggs, Feliks Zhukovski, has spent his entire life blindly loyal to communism. His stance is principled and uncompromising; it has caused him to distance himself from […]
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Lorin Stein enjoying Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Dots Mirrored Room at the Mattress Factory The Paris Review is also well known for author interviews. Starting with E. M. Forster in 1953, these conversations are a sort of […]
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Photo © National Arts Club Page Series, pageseries.wordpress.com New York, Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Francisco, Claremont, Los Angeles. Those were the cities in the whistle-stop tour of Lorin Stein. On his journey, the 37-year-old editor […]
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Hinemoana Baker at the Jazz Poetry Concert, Photo © Renee Rosensteel In “Our Children Have Run Away to Fiji” New Zealand poet Hinemoana Baker writes, “When they get there they make entirely/ different noises. This one […]
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