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MJ Lenderman on Harry Crews: This Fucked-Up Guy
I came to the work of Harry Crews through word of mouth. A friend was telling me about this fucked-up guy and his book A Feast of Snakes.
Election Night in Texas: A Dispatch from the Midterms’ Biggest Sweep
“ ‘So this a big election for you in Italy?’ I asked her. ‘Oh my god!’ she cried, admonishing me. ‘That is an understatement!’ ”
Campaign Literature: Election Day 2026
A selection of Election Day reading from The Paris Review archive.
Belgrade Diary: Election Day in Serbia
The Serbian Progressive Party's leader, Aleksandar Vučić, finally had a real competitor in Student List.
Kazuo Ishiguro, Unlocked: The Butler as Metaphor
“Kazuo Ishiguro inhabits his characters as if there were no true Kazuo Ishiguro to be known.”
Alisa Weilerstein’s Cello
“ ’It’s a bird, it’s a plane!’ people cried. No, just a cello on a moonlit flit.”
Our Fall Issue Cover: Elizabeth Glaessner’s Big Head
“The title kind of teases the painting. It’s a tiny person painting a giant head, which sounds like it could be about the ego.”
Sexless in the City: The Second Life of Cynthia Buchanan’s Maiden
“She was looking for a man,” Cynthia Buchanan writes of the virgin’s quest. “She sure was looking for some man.”
Ernest Hemingway, Unlocked: The Sun Is Still Rising
“Everybody my age had written a novel and I was still having a difficult time writing a paragraph.”
Turner Brooks’s Spatial Memories
Brooks examines buildings less as ends in themselves than as prisms for the human dramas they contain.
Murano Parsnips: The Unexpected Literary History of the Dildo
“The poem treats the dildo with the inflated seriousness of a mock epic, describing its hero with astonishing material precision.”
The Uncanny Catharsis of the AI Emomercial
“The new kind of AI skincare ad is a subgenre in a rampant category that I have come to think of as ‘Purification Slop.’ ”
John Steinbeck, Unlocked: “East of Eden is Going to Take a Bad Beating”
"East of Eden is going to take a bad beating.”
Making of a Poem: Geoffrey G. O’Brien on “Ray of Light”
“I didn’t intend to write a poem, and if you’d asked me if I wanted to, I would have said no.”
My Tamagotchi Diary
Angie Sijun Lou’s diary of raising a Tamagotchi, which partly inspired her short story in issue no. 257, “Bubble.”
Grimes’s Secret Psy Opera Pop-Up
“She has her finger on a pulse. Whose pulse, I don’t know.”
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