Paris Review - Writers, Quotes, Biography, Interviews, Artists
WEBThe Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.
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 …
Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 45
WEBJohn Steinbeck. , The Art of Fiction No. 45. Interviewed by Nathaniel Benchley. Issue 48, Fall 1969. EDITOR’S NOTE: John Steinbeck had agreed to a Paris Review interview late in his life. He had earlier been coy about it, but then wanted the interview very much. He was, unfortunately, too sick to work on the project, though it was at the end ...
What We Can Learn from Neruda’s Poetry of Resistance
WEBMar 26, 2018 · 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.
Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 249
WEBPhoto courtesy of Mayank Austen Soofi After her first novel, The God of Small Things (1997), Arundhati Roy did not publish another for twenty years, when The Ministry of Utmost Happiness was released in 2017. The intervening decades were nonetheless filled with writing: essays on dams, dis...
Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 83
WEBJulio Cortázar. , The Art of Fiction No. 83. When Julio Cortázar died of cancer in February 1984 at the age of sixty-nine, the Madrid newspaper El Pais hailed him as one of Latin America’s greatest writers and over two days carried eleven full pages of tributes, reminiscences, and farewells. Though Cortázar had lived in Paris since 1951 ...
Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 245
WEBGeorge Saunders. , The Art of Fiction No. 245. Photo by Chloe Aftel, courtesy of George Saunders. My first meeting with George Saunders took place in his home of ten years, a ranch house in the Catskills. The house stood on fifteen acres of hilly woods, crisscrossed by narrow paths that he and his wife, the novelist Paula Saunders, had cleared ...
Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 261
WEBIn the nineties, Yu Hua turned to long-form fiction, publishing a string of realist novels that merged elements of his early absurdist style with expansive, emotionally fulsome storytelling. Cries in the Drizzle (1992, translation 2007), To Live (1993, 2003), and Chronicle of a Blood Merchant (1995, 2003) marked a new engagement with the …
You Pose a Problem: A Conversation with Sara Ahmed
WEBJan 14, 2022 · Both times, my complaint, once spoken, seemed to disappear. But complaints, according to the feminist scholar Sara Ahmed, never really go away. If you are the complainer, they tend, as she puts it in her newest book, Complaint!, to “follow you home.”. Sara Ahmed was born in Britain in 1969 to a Pakistani father and an English …
The Paris Review - Beyond the Narrative Arc - The Paris Review
WEBMar 27, 2019 · Beyond the Narrative Arc. In 1926, an Irish designer named Eileen Gray built a shiplike villa on the south coast of France that drove the famed architect Le Corbusier wild. Corbu had declared that a house was “a machine to live in,” but Gray thought, No: a house is a person’s shell, a skin, and should respond to how she lives.