Paris Review - Writers, Quotes, Biography, Interviews, Artists
WEBAn Opera on Little Island. By Helen Rouner. September 19, 2024. “The opera’s three-and-a-half-hour running time has been cut to an Ozempic-thin ninety minutes, and the exquisite Italian libretto is being projected in internet-speak English subtitles accented with the occasional emoji.”.
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 All submissions must be in English and must be previously unpublished.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 Legacy of Audre Lorde - The Paris Review
WEBSep 17, 2020 · Her accomplishments tend to be diminished. The introducer might laugh awkwardly, rushing through whatever impoverished remarks they have prepared. Rarely do they do the necessary research to offer any sense of whom they are introducing. The Black woman is spoken of in terms of anecdote rather than accomplishment.
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.
How Picasso Bled the Women in His Life for Art
WEBNov 9, 2017 · There are some who see Picasso’s treatment of women in a relatively positive light: the women in his life enriched his art and, in turn, he depicted them in loving portraiture and artistic allegory. The classic example given for Picasso’s respectful relationship with women is his friendship with Gertrude Stein, which Stein fondly recounted ...
On Translationese - The Paris Review
WEBJun 23, 2020 · My landlord was the French poet and critic Claude Mouchard, and from the window of my second-floor flat I had a view of his expansive garden featuring every kind of tree—cedar, walnut, linden, cherry, apple, peach, pear, apricot. The summer garden filled with green leaves reminded me of the sea of my hometown.
The Paris Review - “The Reckless Moment” Invites Noirish Paranoia …
WEBDec 9, 2016 · Ophüls’s last Hollywood film before he returned to Europe to make a trio of baroque masterpieces, The Reckless Moment stars Joan Bennett as Lucia Harper, a housewife moved to superhuman acts of will to preserve the fragile sanctity of her middle-class home in a lakefront suburb of LA. Lucia’s husband isn’t violent, he’s just absent ...
The Paris Review - A Brief History of Ultramarine—The World’s …
WEBJun 8, 2015 · Ultramarine: the quality of the shade is embodied in its name. This is the superlative blue, the end-all blue, the blue to which all other hues quietly aspire. The name means “beyond the sea”—a dreamy ode to its distant origins, as romantic as it is imprecise. Derived from the lapis lazuli stone, the pigment was considered more precious ...
The Paris Review - Inscrutable, But Beautiful—Walter Russell’s New …
WEBBy Dan Piepenbring. May 19, 2015. Look. Walter Russell (May 19, 1871–May 19, 1963) was the progenitor of a “new world-thought” centered on light; in books such as The Electrifying Power of Man-Woman Balance, The Book of Early Whisperings, and The Dawn of a New Day in Human Relations, he foresaw “a marriage between religion and science ...
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.
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