Paris Review - Writers, Quotes, Biography, Interviews, Artists
WEBAn Excessively Noisy Gut, a Silver Snarling Trumpet, and a Big Bullshit Story. By Sophie Haigney and Olivia Kan-Sperling. October 1, 2024. Extracts from forthcoming books on the rumbling gut, sea voyages, the Grateful Dead, and …
A Figure Model’s (Brief) Guide to Poses through Art History
WEBDec 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 - Writers, Quotes, Biography, Interviews, Artists
WEBThe 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 All submissions must be in English and must be previously unpublished.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 ...
The Paris Review - The History Behind Agatha Christie’s “And Then …
WEBFeb 5, 2016 · With all the controversy surrounding the renaming of problematic buildings, it seems fitting to draw attention to another bit of suspicious rebranding. Perhaps you’ve seen the BBC miniseries previewed above. “Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None,” is, of course, Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians—which was originally, notoriously, released serially in the UK under the title ...
Why Do We Keep Reading The Great Gatsby? - The Paris Review
WEBJan 11, 2021 · It’s creepier and profoundly, inexorably true to the spirit of the nation. This is not a book about people, per se. Secretly, it’s a novel of ideas. Gatsby meets Daisy when he’s a broke soldier and senses that she requires more prosperity, so five years later he returns as almost a parody of it.
What We Know of Sappho - The Paris Review
WEBDec 8, 2020 · Intact, Sappho’s poems would be as alien to us as the once gaudily painted classical sculptures. In total, all the poems and fragments that have reached us, as brief, mutilated, and devoid of context as they are, add up to no more than six hundred lines. It has been calculated that around 7 percent of Sappho’s work has survived.
Ugliness Is Underrated: In Defense of Ugly Paintings
WEBJul 31, 2018 · Despite the masterful composition, the painting is ugly—or at least, it contains bright spots of ugliness. It is dappled with barbarity and splattered with joy. Heaven, shown on the left side of the triptych, looks rather boring and notably empty. Hell, shown on the far right, has fornicators and flute-assed musicians.
The Most Misread Poem in America - The Paris Review
WEBSep 11, 2015 · According to Google, then, “The Road Not Taken” was, as of mid-2012, at least four times as searched as the central text of the modernist era—The Waste Land—and at least twenty-four times as searched as the most anthologized poem by Ezra Pound.By comparison, this is even greater than the margin by which the term “college football ” beats “archery” and “water polo.”
Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 258
WEBThe 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 Can Learn from Neruda’s Poetry of Resistance
WEBMar 26, 2018 · We can all speak. We can all be part of the dialogue. And poetry can be part of the collective way we, in Neruda’s words, “explain some things.”. From Neruda and others we can see how the act of expressing ourselves, and the act of hearing, are core components of resistance—and of poetry’s unique, enduring power.