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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 1927–2013
It was announced this morning that Ruth Prawer Jhabvala died today at her home in Manhattan, at the age of eighty-five. Jhabvala is best known as an award-winning screenwriter for Merchant Ivory...
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In Lost in Translation, sad-eyed Charlotte spends much of the film curled up on the windowsill high above Tokyo in a sleek Japanese hotel, gazing balefully over the city, acknowledging her loneliness....
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This Is Growing Up
A panel of Adam and Eve in Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise. All this week, we are bringing you some of your favorite posts from 2013. Happy holidays! I had only been in Europe for two weeks when I...
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Beware Usen’t To
This is what happens when you use usen’t to. Constance Charpentier, Melancholy, 1801, oil on canvas. At ten every morning, Garner’s Usage Tip lands in my inbox—I’m sure Garner could suggest a less...
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Levity in the Trenches, and Other News
Got a man in the trenches? Show him you care—with roller skates. An early manuscript of The Sun Also Rises finds Hemingway getting all metafictional: “Hemingway breaks into the narrative to address the...
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So Long, Circumflex, and Other News
The circumflex dares to show itself on this piece of signage telling it to stop showing itself. In France, a twenty-five-year plan to streamline the language for schoolchildren may spell the end of the...
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“Happy as Hell,” and Other News
Paul Beatty. With his novel The Sellout, Paul Beatty has become the first American ever to win the Man Booker Prize. “I don’t want to get all dramatic, like writing saved my life … but writing has...
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On the Pleasures of Front Matter
I don’t believe in not believing in guilty pleasures. Guilt is good—it’s part of what keeps me, at least part of the time, from watching YouTube videos when I could be reading. That said, I’m a...
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The Scent of a Novel
While writing my master’s thesis on DeLillo’s Underworld, I reached a strange level of intimacy with the book. I realized I wanted to wear it around my neck—not as an albatross but as adornment. Some...
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The Paris Review Staff’s Favorite Books of 2018
Lucia Berlin in Oakland, California, 1975. Photo: Jeff Berlin (© 2018 Literary Estate of Lucia Berlin LP). 2018 has been a year of fragments, brief episodes, flashes. The seasons, at least here on the...
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