My dream was a book that doesn’t exist. It was read aloud to me by a male narrator and illustrated with photo slides. Called August Is Back, it was an autobiography of a glamorous Jewish Italian woman ...

The character of Stefan Mihal has functioned partly as a red herring and partly as a doppelganger for photographer Michals. His name derives from Michals’ middle and last names in their original Czech ...

I’m tired of lying here. The mountain and the river are not bad.

A sentence is hard for a sudden to spin into space.

Emma, as I raced to get down what she said , wished that she could have a note taker for all of her soirées. Haydée thought ...

At its heart, this poem describes a compressed moment in time, put into stark relief by her contemplation of the great ...

useless, untender absences with bronze torsos.

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and the rare song above the snow insane.

“Tour of the World” and “The Excursion” are both photographic serials by Jean Le Gac, a Parisian conceptual artist in his early forties. In each, apparent vacation snapshots are arranged in order and ...

In the new Spring issue of The Paris Review, we published an Art of Poetry interview with Alice Notley, conducted by Hannah ...