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Things We Love: Apollinaire, Office Chairs, Flabbergasting Vulgarity
On the newly redesigned Los Angeles Review of Books, Hua Hsu’s review of a rather fascinating microhistory of office chairs has me wondering whether Charles Darwin invented the wheeled version. It...
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Introducing Our Fall Issue!
We all hate to see summer end, but don’t despair: we bring you our Fall issue by way of consolation! And there’s so much to love. James Fenton on journalism, shrimp farming, interior decoration,...
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Vispo
Amanda Earl, Sun. The Paris Review’s interviews have long featured single manuscript pages from among the subjects’ writings. They are meant to show the author at work, his or her method of...
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Required Reading for Bastille Day
Claude Monet, Rue Montorgueil, Paris, Festival of 30 June 1878. So hangs it, dubious, fateful, in the sultry days of July. It is the passionate printed advice of M. Marat, to abstain, of all things,...
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More Drunk Texts from Famous Authors
The long-awaited sequel. Jessie Gaynor is a consummate professional who sometimes tweets at @jessiegaynor.
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Invisible Adventure
Watching a film about Claude Cahun. When Alan Pierson conducts, he stands with his feet together, sometimes springing onto his toes and then plunging forward at the waist. Other times, he takes a step...
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Gertrude Stein’s Mutual Portraiture Society
Portraits of Gertrude Stein by Picabia, Picasso, and Valleton. Between 1908 and her death, in 1946, Gertrude Stein created over a hundred prose portraits, which she called “word paintings.” Most of...
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