Archive for September, 2010

The Paris Review: subscribe, subscribe, subscribe

Lorin Stein’s first issue of The Paris Review is, like the books he’s edited and the magazine’s new beautifully redesigned website, elegant, edgy, and surprising, an unusual but cohesive mix of writing characterized by intelligence and precision and, frequently, humor. As Stein observes in his Editor’s Note, by the time The Paris Review was founded in 1953, critics had already . . .

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Fighting fire with Connors

If Philip Connors’ past work is any guide, the forthcoming Fire Season, on his job as a lookout, is bound to be deeply insightful and otherwise extraordinary.

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