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Letters to James Schuyler
The artist and writer Joe Brainard and the poet James Schuyler, both central figures in the New York School of poets and ...
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The Psychopathology of Everyday Café Life in Freud’s Vienna
Deborah Levy writes fiction, plays, and poetry. She is the author of several novels including August Blue, Hot Milk and ...
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Portrait of the Philosopher as a Young Dog: Kafka’s Philosophical Investigations
What if Kafka’s dog were an unlikely hero of theory for untheoretical times? What would it mean to philosophize with Kafka’s ...
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First Tour of the Old World
As told to Marcel Sauvage in Le Vésinet, France, 1930   The Netherlands What I like about success, Monsieur Sauvage, is the ...
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“This was the farewell
Many friends came with us and whoever did not come was no longer a friend. This was the evening: Haltingly, it slowed our ...
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My Childhood Toy Poodles
In middle school, when no one was home, I would lay facing Binky as he lay flat on his side on the carpet. ‘I love you,’ I would say.” ...
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to recover belongings from a wreck
There is a painting by the Eritrean American artist Ficre Ghebreyesus named Solitary Boat in Red and Blue. It is a painting I find utterly compelling, utterly seductive—perhaps because I love the ...
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Les Cinquante Glorieuses
After that, there emerge two major streams of philosophy that shape medieval philosophy, and then Western philosophy in general. These two major branches of philosophy are, of course, Neo-Platonism ...
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Javier Fuentes Will Be the Paris Review Visiting Professor at the Bard Prison Initiative
Last year, The Paris Review joined forces with the Bard Prison Initiative, which for twenty-five years has provided a full-time, tuition-free, degree-granting liberal arts education to students in ...