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The Paris Review

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Fiction, poetry, and the Art of Interview series — long-form conversations with novelists, poets, and playwrights that often read better than most criticism.

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The Vanishing Library: Timothy Ely’s Odd Little Book from Outer Space

“The few words it contains are indecipherable, of no language. (The letters look Hebrew—if you don’t know Hebrew and have never seen Hebrew letters before.)”

Max RossJun 9, 2026
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The Summer of Lion Meat

In the medieval period it was common for translators to insert commentary on their theories and methods directly into the text.

Tere Dávila and Rebecca Hanssens-ReedJun 8, 2026
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Idiots: On Munch and von Trier

“Not direct access to reality, of course, but a different kind of access.”

Karl Ove KnausgaardJun 4, 2026
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Hildegard, Tarkovsky, Citrus Trees

“Isn’t it a kind of arrogance to believe that anything can be exempt from the deeply tangled and patterned networks of reality?”

Nicolette PolekJun 3, 2026
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Perfectoid Spaces

New books by César Aira, Osamu Dazai, Claire Fuller, Kevin Hartnett, Édouard Louis, and Teddy Wayne.

Tarpley Hitt and Olivia Kan-SperlingJun 1, 2026
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Love in a Fallen City: Shanghai’s Marriage Market

“‘Oi,’ he whispered. I caught the whites of his eyes above his frames. ‘I’ve got a ’95 man. Want to see? Most of my clients are at least 1.85 meters.’”

Becky ZhangMay 29, 2026
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Ode to the Kitchen Bath

“There is something so luxurious and, dare I say it, extremely gay about having a bath in the middle of your kitchen.”

Daniel FelsenthalMay 28, 2026
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The Twenty-Year Novel: Harriet Clark on The Hill

If you’re deprived of a home, deprived of access to your family, you learn that, actually, being bound to others is the significant thing.

Lidija HaasMay 27, 2026
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Barthelme, the Houstonian

“Barthelme died in 1989, at the age of fifty-eight. I was at college and heard the news from a friend who worked at a Kinko’s to which one of the Barthelme brothers had brought Don Jr.’s will.”

Susan ChoiMay 22, 2026
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Building an AI Data Center in Pine Island, Minnesota

“A tech company worth trillions is fighting, hard, to transform Pine Island, a town whose Wikipedia page claims just two notable people: Ralph Samuelson, the inventor of waterskiing, and Lucas Helder, a.k.a. the Midwest Pipe Bomber.”

Thomas John WeberMay 21, 2026
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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s “Perte Loss”

“To traverse Cha's archive is to register the force of an artistic imagination that is itself not ‘fixe, mort’ but constantly mutating.”

Katie KirklandMay 20, 2026
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The Ignorant Art Historian: Sackcloth 1953

“We associate burlap not with art but with use, indeed with waste.”

Hal FosterMay 19, 2026
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When the Confederacy Came to LA

“The nation is splattered with these zombie structures, or sutures, with nowhere to be and no path to total erasure.”

Harmony HolidayMay 1, 2026
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My Friend Bambi

“When the baddest bitch in the room makes you feel seen you never forget it.”

Brontez PurnellMay 4, 2026
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Wolfgang Koeppen’s Structural Musicality

“The man was writing like his typewriter was on fire and in flaming succession produced three books that have been called a trilogy through proximity alone.”

Joshua CohenMay 4, 2026
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The Ignorant Art Historian: Ice Floes

“This is a river you can’t step in even once.”

Hal FosterMay 5, 2026
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Rotten Dot Com

“Rotten.com was a haunted arcade, dispensing trauma in gumball-machine doses straight to kids with dial-up, who chewed on images never meant for their half-formed stomachs.”

Dena YagoMay 6, 2026
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Elegant Dirty Diary Entry

New books by César Aira, Dylan Gottlieb, Xiao Hai, Maïa Hruska, and Missouri Williams.

Tarpley Hitt and Olivia Kan-SperlingMay 7, 2026
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Sheila Heti on Andrés Felipe Solano’s Gloria

“With certain books, you feel like you started writing them when you were ten years old, and again at twenty-four when you had a certain dream, and again when you wrote the first sentence.”

Sheila HetiMay 12, 2026
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The Ignorant Art Historian: The Blind Man’s Meal

“Perhaps he is tubercular as well as blind. Certainly he is poor.”

Hal FosterMay 12, 2026
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In "Mutual Analysis" with Wallace Shawn's Moth Days

On Wallace Shawn's newest book and the strange shape of his attention.

George ProchnikMay 15, 202611 min read
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The Literary Agent's Invisible Hand: Laura B. McGrath on Middlemen

A conversation about what literary agents actually do and why their work is largely invisible.

Rosa LysterMay 14, 202610 min read