Every night the same nightmare interrupts my sleep.” With this sentence Scholastique Mukasonga begins her debut Cockroaches, ...

This was the farewell: Many friends came with us and whoever did not come was no longer a friend. This was the evening: Haltingly, it slowed our pace, and drew our souls out the window. This was the ...

Arendt’s poem tells the story of her farewell to Europe and her arrival in the United States in a dozen lines of verse. But ...

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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To coax pale horses from the edge of a wet, blue field.

It was a hot day in June.

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 ...

I’m tired of lying here. The mountain and the river are not bad.

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 ...

Let me begin by insisting that I learned nothing. What is left of it now, my electronics project, other than the names of these things? A solderless breadboard, and another one, and another one. A ...