The Paris Review1d
The Host
His teeth were purple from the wine.” ...
The Paris Review1d
Three Letters from Rilke
Below are three letters from Rilke to Modersohn-Becker, written late in the year 1900.
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37-08 Utopia Parkway: Joseph Cornell’s House
She said she knew nothing about the previous resident Joseph Cornell, other than that he’d existed—and that a different man ...
The Paris Review4d
“Perfection You Cannot Have”: On Agnes Martin and Grief
Agnes Martin, Night Sea, 1963. The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Copyright ...
The Paris Review13d
RIP Billymark’s
There are fewer and fewer good bars, for all the obvious reasons, and Billymark’s was one of the last in the stretch of ...
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Swallowing: I Was Mike Mew’s Patient
I named her Holy Jemima when I was nine, or thereabouts. I liked the way the words sounded and it was meant cruelly. Holy ...
The Paris Review4d
An Interview with Sybille Bedford
Sybille Bedford’s latest novel, Jigsaw, was published in 1989 to great acclaim. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and prepublication extracts of it appeared in The New Yorker. It was her first ...
The Paris Review2d
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." ...