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Tonight: Rachel Kushner and James Wood
Photo: Lucy Raven Tonight at seven, Rachel Kushner launches the paperback edition of her wonderful novel The Flamethrowers—she’ll be in conversation with The New Yorker’s James Wood at the Powerhouse...
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Climate Change
From the cover of Cartoons Magazine, January 1916. Like everyone else, I am weary of talking about the weather. But it’s not the banality of the talk that bothers me. Talking about weather is as...
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Booksellers Week
Carl Spitzweg, Kunst und Wissenschaft (detail), ca. 1880. One of the few remaining bastions of character on New York’s Upper West Side is its smattering of sidewalk booksellers. Up and down...
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Slow News
From an ad for White Beaver’s Cough Cream, ca. 1900.I phoned my dad. I was eager to discuss the recent cover story on a New York City tabloid. It featured a homeless man who lives in my neighborhood,...
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Dress Code
From a 1962 Clairol ad.My mother called me to ask how much to tip on a haircut. “A normal haircut,” she said.“I usually tip upwards of 20 percent,” I said, “but of course it’s at your discretion.”“That...
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Brief Encounter
“Polite New Yorker”Guess who I ran into this morning? Three guesses. And if you guessed Jacob, my neighborhood friend, you’re right! I was enjoying a toasted, buttered bialy, a coffee-cart small, and a...
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Diamonds and Pearls
From a 1916 Vanity Fair cover.“How are you?” asked a smiling acquaintance on the street. “Well, I’m pretty down about Prince—but aren’t we all?” I said reprovingly. “Oh yes,” she murmured. “Of course.”...
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New York Values
O’Hare International Airport. Photo: Cory W. WattsThe same day I ate the hot dog—indeed, the same layover—I found myself in conversation with a group of other travelers. One commented on the crowds,...
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Monday: Terry McDonell and Graydon Carter at 92Y
Terry McDonell and Graydon Carter.Join Terry McDonell, president of The Paris Review’s board of directors, next Monday, September 19, at 92Y, as he discusses his new memoir, The Accidental Life: An...
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Tonight at McNally Jackson: A Celebration of Henry Green
New Yorkers: tonight at seven, join The Paris Review’s Lorin Stein at McNally Jackson, where he’ll be in conversation with Deborah Eisenberg, Michael Greenberg, and Craig Lucas; they’re discussing the...
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This Sunday: Alexander Kluge in Conversation with Ben Lerner
Alexander Kluge.We hope you’ll join us this Sunday, October 23, for a conversation between Alexander Kluge and Ben Lerner at Goethe-Institut New York.Kluge is a German writer, theorist, and filmmaker;...
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This Thursday: Yasmine El Rashidi and Robyn Creswell
Photo: Brigitte LacombJoin us this Thursday, October 27, at the New York Public Library for a conversation between our poetry editor, Robyn Creswell, and the Egyptian writer Yasmine El Rashidi, a...
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Mürmurings
Uluç Ülgen invites total strangers to his home for intimate one-on-one conversations. Uluç Ülgen. All photos via www.mürmer.com. With the possible exception of certain work-from-home professionals...
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Angels and Administration: An Interview with Alexander Kluge
Our Winter issue features fiction by Alexander Kluge: “In Medieval Angelology, There Are Nine Orders of Snow,” twenty-two stories on some lines from Ben Lerner’s The Lichtenberg Figures. Kluge made...
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A Walk Around the Left Bank
Talking about the history of Shakespeare and Company on a stroll through Paris. From left to right: Sylvia Whitman, Lauren Elkin, and Krista Halverson. Photo: Mathew McWilliams It was the first of...
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Quantum Wall: An Interview with Jack Whitten
Jack Whitten. Photo: John Berens. Jack Whitten’s art—canvasses built up with what he calls “tesserae” of acrylic paint, at once minimalist and ornate—is an excellent analog for his manner. He speaks...
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Tuesday Night: Nazis on Speed
New York: This Tuesday night (March 7) at NeueHouse, I’m talking to Norman Ohler about his new book Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich, which reveals how drugs pervaded Nazi society from the front...
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Starting Out in the Evening
Photo: Dan McCoy, NARA, 1973. Years ago, a psychic of some sort told me that the top of my head was open, that I had a WELCOME mat where a locked door ought to be, and I should be careful: any...
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At Eisenberg’s Sandwich Shop, Twenty-Second and Fifth Ave
Photo by David Puthenry, 1985. At Eisenberg’s Sandwich Shop, Twenty-Second and Fifth Ave: Pale man in a coat and tie. Ham sandwich. Rye bread. Diet Coke. iPhone. Cracker. That’s all he says. Cracker....
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This Thursday: Yasmine El Rashidi and Robyn Creswell
Photo: Brigitte Lacomb Join us this Thursday, October 27, at the New York Public Library for a conversation between our poetry editor, Robyn Creswell, and the Egyptian writer Yasmine El Rashidi, a...
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