A Figure Model’s (Brief) Guide to Poses through Art History
WEBDec 18, 2019 · On the model stand, I could take a graceful dancer’s stance, like one of the Three Graces in this Roman replica of a Hellenistic statue, perhaps draping my arm over a prop, like an unattended easel. Or maybe crouch low to the ground, my body twisted, like Aphrodite coyly adjusting her hair, in a typical depiction of the goddess.. Following the Classical period’s introduction of a more ...
What We Know of Sappho - The Paris Review
WEBDec 8, 2020 · Intact, Sappho’s poems would be as alien to us as the once gaudily painted classical sculptures. In total, all the poems and fragments that have reached us, as brief, mutilated, and devoid of context as they are, add up to no more than six hundred lines. It has been calculated that around 7 percent of Sappho’s work has survived.
What We Can Learn from Neruda’s Poetry of Resistance
WEBMar 26, 2018 · We can all speak. We can all be part of the dialogue. And poetry can be part of the collective way we, in Neruda’s words, “explain some things.”. From Neruda and others we can see how the act of expressing ourselves, and the act of hearing, are core components of resistance—and of poetry’s unique, enduring power.
Paris Review - Writers, Quotes, Biography, Interviews, Artists
WEBProse by Josephine Baker, Caleb Crain, Marlene Morgan, Morgan Thomas, and Fumio Yamamoto. Poetry by Hannah Arendt, Matt Broaddus, Sara Gilmore, Benjamin Krusling, Mark Leidner, James Richardson, and Margaret Ross. Art by Ayé Aton and Ron Veasey, and cover by Sterling Ruby. Purchase This Issue.
The Art of Poetry No. 71 - The Paris Review
WEBThe Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that “women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica Laser. Olds also reads three of her poems: “Sisters of Sexual Treasure” (issue no. 74, Fall–Winter 1978), “True Love,” and “The Easel.”
Why Write? - The Paris Review
WEBJul 6, 2022 · In his own Paris Review interview, Ted Hughes tells a story about Thomas Hardy’s vision of a novel—“all the characters, many episodes, even some dialogue—the one ultimate novel that he absolutely had to write”—which came to him up in an apple tree. This may be apocryphal, but I hope it isn’t.
The Art of Fiction No. 175 - The Paris Review
WEBThe Paris Review Podcast returns with a new season, featuring the best interviews, fiction, essays, and poetry from America’s most legendary literary quarterly, brought to life in sound. Join us for intimate conversations with Sharon Olds and Olga Tokarczuk; fiction by Rivers Solomon, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, and Zach Williams; poems by Terrance Hayes and Maggie Millner; nonfiction by Robert ...
Why Do We Keep Reading The Great Gatsby? - The Paris Review
WEBJan 11, 2021 · It’s creepier and profoundly, inexorably true to the spirit of the nation. This is not a book about people, per se. Secretly, it’s a novel of ideas. Gatsby meets Daisy when he’s a broke soldier and senses that she requires more prosperity, so five years later he returns as almost a parody of it.
May ’68: What Legacy? - The Paris Review
WEBMay 1, 2018 · May ’68’s legacy can seem like one of disappointment—sometimes a bitter disappointment. For all the talk of a new society, May ’68 proved to be more of a jubilant vacuum, devoid of any tangible project, as sociologist Gilles Lipovetsky explains in 1983’s L’ère du vide (The Void Era). Worse, its cult of the individual might have ...
The Private Life: On James Baldwin - The Paris Review
WEBAug 2, 2024 · Cleaver, in his book Soul on Ice, published in 1968, wrote, “It seems that many Negro homosexuals … are outraged and frustrated because in their sickness they are unable to have a baby by a white man. …Homosexuality is a sickness, just as are baby-rape or wanting to become the head of General Motors.” Later, in an interview with The Paris Review in 1984, Baldwin said “My real ...