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Re-Covered: The Fortnight in September by R. C. Sherriff
WEBSep 29, 2021 · “The man on his holidays becomes the man he might have been, the man he could have been, had things worked out a little differently,” writes R. C. Sherriff in The Fortnight in September, his unassuming but utterly beguiling tale of an ordinary lower-middle-class London family during the interwar years, on their annual holiday to the English seaside town of Bognor Regis.
Why Do We Keep Reading The Great Gatsby? - The Paris Review
WEBJan 11, 2021 · It’s creepier and profoundly, inexorably true to the spirit of the nation. This is not a book about people, per se. Secretly, it’s a novel of ideas. Gatsby meets Daisy when he’s a broke soldier and senses that she requires more prosperity, so five years later he returns as almost a parody of it.
And Alexander Wept - The Paris Review
WEBMar 19, 2020 · The “quote” goes like this: And Alexander wept, seeing as he had no more worlds to conquer. “Alexander” is, of course, Alexander the Great, king of Macedon in the fourth century BC. A legend in his own time, et cetera, he died in his early thirties, et cetera, having won many battles. The quote is poetic. It touches a theme dear to ...
The Art of Fiction No. 3 - The Paris Review
WEBThe Paris Review Podcast returns with a new season, featuring the best interviews, fiction, essays, and poetry from America’s most legendary literary quarterly, brought to life in sound. Join us for intimate conversations with Sharon Olds and Olga Tokarczuk; fiction by Rivers Solomon, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, and Zach Williams; poems by Terrance Hayes and Maggie Millner; nonfiction by Robert ...
Building a Monument: An Interview with Natasha Trethewey
WEBNov 15, 2018 · This collection chronicled one of the first African American regiments during the Civil War. Her exquisite and brutal lyricism as well as her commitment to truth makes Trethewey one of the most important American poets of our time. Her new book, Monument, is a collection of both new and selected works. It’s a …
Always the Model, Never the Artist - The Paris Review
WEBJul 24, 2019 · In Morisot’s The Wet Nurse and Julie (1879), which features her daughter, you can glance at the superficial beauty and see an updated Madonna and Child.Or you can interpret the painting as a silent accusation leveled against a system that would render invisible the efforts necessary to be both artist and mother, and create a need for the wet nurse to fill in as hired help.
They Say It’s Wonderful: Hartman and Coltrane, an Appreciation
WEBDec 13, 2012 · But Coltrane, who achieved God-like status before he died in 1967, was a sensitive accompanist and, as it turned out, a fine match for Hartman. Of the many well-chosen tracks on John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, I’m particularly fond of two of them: Irving Berlin’s “They Say It’s Wonderful” and “You Are Too Beautiful,” written by ...
In Praise of the Flâneur - The Paris Review
WEBOct 17, 2013 · Little things in life supplant the “great events.” —Peter Altenberg, as translated by Peter Wortsman The figure of the flâneur—the stroller, the passionate wanderer emblematic of nineteenth-century French literary culture—has always been essentially timeless; he removes himself from the world while he stands astride its heart. When Walter Benjamin brought Baudelaire’s conception ...
The Art of Poetry No. 2 - The Paris Review
WEBThe Paris Review Podcast returns with a new season, featuring the best interviews, fiction, essays, and poetry from America’s most legendary literary quarterly, brought to life in sound. Join us for intimate conversations with Sharon Olds and Olga Tokarczuk; fiction by Rivers Solomon, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, and Zach Williams; poems by Terrance Hayes and Maggie Millner; nonfiction by Robert ...