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Witchcraft Is Still a Fine Idea, and Other News
From A Rehearsall both Straung and True, of Hainous and Horrible Actes Committed by Elizabeth Stile, 1579. Say you’re an uptight God-fearing Christian type, and it’s your job to stamp out the sinful...
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It’s Your New Moving House, and Other News
Just relax and take a nap while your house moves. So you’re moving. That’s nice. I bet you’re packing up all your stuff and stowing it in some U-Haul. I bet you’re tissue wrapping your glassware and...
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Cassandras at Weddings, and Other Questions
Have a question for the editors of The Paris Review? Email us. Dear Paris Review, I’m the only child of a single mom, who’s obviously been my best friend from the start. But here’s the thing: after...
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A Life of Reading Is Never Lonely
Photo by Nadja Spiegelman. Reading is at once a lonely and an intensely sociable act. The writer becomes your ideal companion—interesting, worldly, compassionate, energetic—but only if you stick with...
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The Handwriting of Famous People
The Romans were among the first to develop a written script, and their penmanship was round and even. In the Middle Ages, the price of parchment soared, and handwriting, accordingly, became small and...
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An Incomplete Biography of Marcel Proust
Liana Finck’s cartoons appear regularly in The New Yorker and on her Instagram feed. Her graphic memoir, Passing for Human, will be out in September.
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Lionel Trilling’s Hottest Takes
Everybody’s a critic, but in the past hundred years, few have reached the heights of Lionel Trilling. When he died in 1975, his obituary ran on the front page of the New York Times—a rarity for those...
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Abandoned Books, Anonymous Sculpture, and Curves to the Apple
Bernd and Hilla Becher photographs at Galerie Rudolfinum Praha. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. In August, I become regretful about everything that I haven’t squeezed into my summer and probably won’t....
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At Proust Weekend: The Madeleine Event
Over the course of Villa Albertine’s Proust Weekend, a series of talks, workshops, and readings celebrating the forthcoming English translation of the last volume of the Recherche and the centenary of...
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Only Style Survives: On Chateaubriand
Horned adder. Marius Burger, via Wikimedia Commons. I lie in bed until the voice says Get up and live, then I put on my slippers and read my usual ten pages of Chateaubriand over breakfast. Why...
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