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Father and Mother
When they met she was living in a large apartment in the rue Bonaparte, with the sister closest in age, the one who’s going ...
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William and Henry James
His response to Henry’s desire to travel home is a strange mixture of welcome and repulse, a recognition of their sibling ...
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Making of a Poem: Nora Fulton on “La Comédie-Française”
For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Nora Fulton’s poem “ ...
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The Color of Neville Brand's Front Teeth
mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.
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St. Francis and the Damietta Prostitute
"Come with me, and I will show you a beautiful bed. " And St. Francis led her to a large fire.
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The Dead Soldier's Talk
I’m tired of lying here. The mountain and the river are not bad.
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The Canon of Western Humor
It seemed obvious in planning a number devoted to humor that The Paris Review should approach Harold Bloom, the distinguished Yale academic and critic, author of the recently published The Western ...