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Why Do We Keep Reading ‘The Great Gatsby’? - The Paris Review
Jan 11, 2021 · ‘The Great Gatsby’ is not a book about people, per se. Secretly, it’s a novel of ideas.
What We Know of Sappho - The Paris Review
Dec 8, 2020 · As Nebuchadnezzar II is plundering Jerusalem, Solon ruling Athens, Phoenician seafarers circumnavigating the African continent for the first time, and Anaximander postulating that an indefinite primal matter is the origin of all things and that the soul is …
A Figure Model’s (Brief) Guide to Poses through Art History
Dec 18, 2019 · On the model stand, I could take a graceful dancer’s stance, like one of the Three Graces in this Roman replica of a Hellenistic statue, perhaps draping my arm over a prop, like an unattended easel. Or maybe crouch low to the ground, my body twisted, like Aphrodite coyly adjusting her hair, in a typical depiction of the goddess.. Following the Classical period’s introduction of a more ...
The Most Misread Poem in America - The Paris Review
Sep 11, 2015 · According to Google, then, “The Road Not Taken” was, as of mid-2012, at least four times as searched as the central text of the modernist era—The Waste Land—and at least twenty-four times as searched as the most anthologized poem by Ezra Pound.By comparison, this is even greater than the margin by which the term “college football ” …
How to Really Listen to Music - The Paris Review
Aug 22, 2019 · An untrained listener’s guide. During my hour-long commute home from work, when I’m too tired to even listen to podcasts, I listen to music.
The Art of Fiction No. 249 - The Paris Review
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica Laser. Olds also reads three of her poems: “Sisters of Sexual Treasure” (issue no. 74, Fall–Winter 1978), “True Love,” and “The Easel.”
The Legacy of Audre Lorde - The Paris Review
Sep 17, 2020 · The intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible work of Audre Lorde is as relevant in this century as it was in her own.
Reproducing Borges’s Imaginary Library Online - The Paris Review
Jul 23, 2015 · Reproducing Borges’s imaginary library online. Since I first read it in a high school Spanish class, I’ve been fascinated by the theory of language implicit in Borges’s “The Library of Babel.”The story describes a universal library containing, in 410-page volumes, every possible permutation of twenty-two letters, spaces, commas, and …
The Paris Review - Sitting Up: A Brief History of Chairs
Aug 23, 2016 · There is a pivotal early scene in David Lean’s film Lawrence of Arabia in which T. E. Lawrence and his superior, Colonel Brighton, visit the desert encampment of Prince Faisal, a leader of the Arab Revolt. The royal tent is spartan yet luxurious, patterned woven cloths hang from the low ceiling, a large brass samovar gleams in …