“An unbounded world lacks enchantment and magic. Enchantment depends on boundaries, transitions, and thresholds.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/03/20/the-disenchantment-of-the-world/
“We can see her pubis and her mugshots and the powder in her nostrils, but it is impossible for us, as regular, unfamous people, to know what it feels like to be her.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/03/15/the-celebrity-as-muse/
After a nearly scandal-less summer of 2023, in the caustic August light, Ye West was spotted on a small boat in Venice, Italy, with his ass half out. His new wife had been giving him a blowjob in...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/10/13/ask-me-about-god-on-ye-west/
“Hughes describes her lush, vibrantly chromatic images of hills, rivers, trees, and shorelines, often framed by abstract patterning, as invented landscapes.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/08/08/the-paris-review-print-series-shara-hughes/
“Even the geometry of the ring is defied, its quadrangle stretched and deformed again and again. The rapid shifting of planes is forged by grand aerial man oeuvres and gestures of torsion and c...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/07/05/on-mexican-baroque/
A landscape has come into being through a constellation of resistances to these strategies of control.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/01/31/all-water-has-a-perfect-memory/
“So then how might one write the disaster, the terrible history carried in our gestures, residing in our bodies, marked on our flesh, etched onto our retinas?”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/01/09/a-room-with-history/
“I’m not cheap. I’m just very stingy. There are oil paints in my studio I’ve had for over ten years.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/12/19/lsd-snowfall-an-interview-with-uman/
“Why were we here? Did we want to know if Didion had good taste?”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/11/17/at-the-joan-didion-estate-sale/
“I realized that I was doing it all to myself. I was making myself feel this way, and for what? For art?”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/10/31/dawn-kaspers-death-scenes/