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A Week in Culture: Dan Chiasson, Poet

DAY ONE 6:15 A.M. Our children wake us up. Nobody wants anything read to them this morning. They are involved in some kind of acrimonious negotiation involving Lego heads (“That’s my head!” “It’s MY...

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Staff Picks: A Fan’s Notes, Foster Wallace on TV

In light of the recent article about TV producer Michael Schur and his obsession with David Foster Wallace, I spent tropical storm Irene watching the first two seasons of Parks and Recreation for signs...

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Letter from Boston

Smoky circles formed outside the Hynes Convention Center, the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair’s central hub. The snow was light but constant. There was a...

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Maps

People pretend the idea of fact-checking fiction is hilarious and a paradox and maybe even scandalously bureaucratic and wrongheaded. But when fiction gets facts wrong, people care. If a novel claims...

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Thomas Crown’s Global Vision

June 19, 2013, marked the forty-fifth anniversary of the release of The Thomas Crown Affair—the original version, directed by Norman Jewison and written by Alan Trustman. While for most of us the...

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Light and Dark

It has been almost three months since the Boston Marathon bombings and the riveting manhunt that followed: less than a hundred days, a fraction of the time needed to understand what happened, what...

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William Wordsworth’s “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways”

One recent evening, my father and I were sharing a bottle of wine when our conversation turned, as if often does, to his father. We like to call my paternal grandfather “the Judge,” and we use this...

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Literary Cultural Districts, and Other News

A group of advocates is looking to establish the nation’s first literary cultural district in historically-rich Boston. Says the Globe, “Its proponents don’t know exactly where its borders will lie,...

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Amateur Night

Image via Pod Collective Instead of attending my ten-year high school reunion I went to a psychic healer. This was the Boston suburbs, on the eve of Thanksgiving. Annually, on the night in question,...

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Poe in Bronze, and Other News

The clay model of Stefanie Rocknak’s proposed Edgar Allan Poe statue. Photo via My Modern Met This fall, Boston plans to erect an impressive new statue of Edgar Allan Poe: a raven at his side, a veiny...

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Smack Talk, and Other News

The wry, D.I.Y. branding of heroin. Photo: Graham Macindoe, via Wired In celebration of its many contributions to arts and letters, Boston has approved a plan to turn a section of the city into the...

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Are You Okay?

Illustration: Mohamed Ibrahim As the hostage situation in Paris unfolds, the correspondents on CNN keep using the word okay. Are the hostages okay, how many are okay, et cetera. Okay means “alive,” of...

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Panties Inferno: An Interview with Peter Larkin

Making a pop-up book about burlesque. Peter Larkin My mother Racelle, a painter, met the production designer Peter Larkin in the midsixties when she went to work for him as a scenic artist. After my...

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Here Are Ghosts

Jose Bautista, Hotel Palace de Madrid, 2007In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are no minorities; people are not...

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Panties Inferno: An Interview with Peter Larkin

We’re away until January 4, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2015. Please enjoy, and have a happy New Year!Peter LarkinMaking a pop-up book about burlesque.My mother Racelle, a...

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Boston: See Our Prints at Harvard Square

Since 1964, The Paris Review has commissioned a series of prints and posters by major contemporary artists. Contributors have included Andy Warhol, Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Bourgeois, Ed Ruscha, and...

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The Boston Molasses Plot Thickens, and Other News

The aftermath of the Boston Molasses Disaster. In January 1919, a freak molasses accident claimed the lives of twenty-one people in Boston: a steel holding tank burst open, flooding the streets (and...

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Crazy-Beautiful Heart

Bill Knott’s primal poetry.  Bill Knott, from the cover of I Am Flying Into Myself.   I met Bill Knott in late 1968, or in early 1969, at William Corbett’s house, a gathering place for poets in...

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To Have and Have Not

New letters shed light on Hemingway’s unrequited love and early life. Letters from 1918 written to Frances Coates, for whom Hemingway carried a torch. Next to the letters is Hemingway’s high school...

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The Competing, Indignant Voices in “Rights”

Amanda Auerbach’s poem “Rights” appears in our Summer issue. Here, she remembers the two voices—one from the left and one from the right—that inspired it. Photo by Jerry Kiesewetter.   I wrote the poem...

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