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Portfolio: Stefan Michal's Suitcase
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 ...
The Paris Review3d
The Canon of Western Humor
It seemed obvious in planning a number devoted to humor that The Paris Review should approach Harold Bloom, the distinguished Yale academic and critic, author of the recently published The Western ...
The Paris Review6d
The Hawk's Cry in Autumn
Wind from the northwestern quarter is lifting him high above ...
The Paris Review6d
The Black Venus: For Max Ernst
of Sedona, Arizona, with a blank book for poems. Didn't we emerge from the same prehistoric egg amid sparks of jet & obsidian embedded in the hills of Montmartre? "Only Negroes can excite Paris." ...
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Poet at Seventy-Eight
You wonder who in the world are the people who actually use stool cards. They’re the very same scum who sell drugs to little kids in school yards.
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The Color of Neville Brand's Front Teeth
mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.
The Paris Review6d
Portfolio: Margaret Finds a Box
In his photographic sequences, Duane Michals has expanded the possibilities of his medium. While most photo- graphs deal with static appearances, Michals' depend on trans- formations and ...
The Paris Review6d
Auden in the Aquarium
It was a hot day in June.
The Paris Review6d
The True Story of Mortar and Pestle
begets cruelty, and, before long, one would have to chop off one's own hand to end the source of self-torture. Yet, we ...
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Learning to Ice-Skate
William Charles Anthony Frerichs, Ice Skating (1869), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. In Stockholm it didn’t snow on Christmas or New Year’s Eve or at the beginning of January. The days were ...
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Klimt and Schiele Confront the Cunt
turned impotent, and had to be divorced. The nineteenth century, for all its love ...