“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.”
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This Week In Books: I Bought Some Books
Am I ghoul for buying all these plague books?
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 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
The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Lockets
Lockets simultaneously display and hide. But does squirreling our love and grief away in a piece of jewelry keep the memories and emotions present for us, or minimize them?
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Culture, Current Events, Reading List
Toni Morrison, 1931-2019
An elegy and reading list for Toni Morrison, the Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who died Monday, August 5, 2019.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
The Year of the Jumpsuit
A political art project calls for everyone to wear nondescript coveralls.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Feminize Your Canon: Olivia Manning
The first in a new series at the Paris Review, featuring “underrated and underread” female authors. This one profiles British Novelist Olivia Manning (1908-1980), known best for her novel School for Love and for her Balkan and Levant trilogies. Manning’s books featured less likable women characters, who might have been better appreciated if they were […]
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
Reality TV, Why Do We Love You So?
Love and guilt about reality TV.
Posted inReading List, Writing
On Keeping a Notebook: A Reading List
In this reading list, Jeanne Bonner ruminates on the joys of writing by hand and keeping a notebook.
