This week critics have looked to Huysmans, Camus and Jean-Philippe Toussaint for COVID-era inspiration.
Search results
Posted inReading List
This Week in Books: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
“Oh, all the one-way tickets! / I haven’t found anything / more sorrowful than you / in the pockets of the world.”
Posted inBooks
This Week In Books: The New Lord and Lady of the Apartment
“Infamously … Goethe dismissed the younger writer as diseased.”
Posted inReading List
This Week In Books: I Bought Some Books
Am I ghoul for buying all these plague books?
Posted inFeature
‘Some Things Never Leave You’: Christian Livermore on Poverty’s Indelible Marks
“For me, passing means trying to be anything other than what I was, and what I fear so desperately I always will be: poor white trash.”
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
In Defense of Boris the Russki
Ayşegül Savaş calls into question a kind of racism in Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, and laments the liberal reluctance to rebuke discrimination outright, regardless of its targets.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2022: All of Our No. 1 Story Picks
All the stories we’ve selected as number one in our weekly Top 5 newsletter.
Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
Balancing the Books
The Paris Review launches a monthly column to shine light on women writers from the past who have been under-recognized.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
The Year of the Jumpsuit
A political art project calls for everyone to wear nondescript coveralls.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
Reality TV, Why Do We Love You So?
Love and guilt about reality TV.
