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The Burden of Home
Matt Adler as Rick Kane in North Shore. If you haven’t seen the 1987 movie North Shore, take that as evidence of your refined palate. The movie came out when I was in sixth grade, and it was so corny...
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The latest Alexander Payne outing, The Descendants, is based on a book, but unlike Breaking Dawn: Part 1, the book it is based on has not amassed an army of followers so ardent that they have their own...
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Rebecca Walker, Maui, Hawaii
A series on what writers from around the world see from their windows. I have been looking out this window for three years. I have stared out of these rectangular panes full of hope and also despair,...
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A Corner of Paradise
The opening to Betsy Karel’s new book of photography, Conjuring Paradise, is a poem by Kay Ryan titled “Slant.” It wonders at the randomness of loss, suspecting that its arbitrariness may be...
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“I Will Not Be Trifled With!” and Other News
Adolf Emil Hering, Wilhelm II, Deutscher Kaiser, 1910. Finnegans Wake, in all its difficulty, was only “crying out for the invention of the web, which would enable the holding of multiple domains of...
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Language Leakage: An Interview with Sarah Thomason
The linguist discusses how technology shapes culture and culture shapes words. A uniform for the Spokane Indians in Salish. The first time Sarah “Sally” Thomason and I spoke, she’d just completed her...
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Language Leakage: An Interview with Sarah Thomason
We’re away until January 3, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2016. Enjoy your holiday! A uniform for the Spokane Indians in Salish. The linguist discusses how technology shapes...
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Redux: Desire Is Curled
Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to...
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