“Carefully pasted in place were four pieces of fabric, three of them framed in decorative waxed borders—scraps of silk important enough to have been memorialized.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/05/15/the-dress-diary-of-mrs-anne-sykes/
“It was an ‘I‘ of early days long gone who lived in these places, and that ‘I’ has already succumbed, for our days die before us.”
“It isn’t a memorial for the burned but for those who burned them.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/03/16/a-memorial-for-those-accused-of-witchcraft/
D’Aulnoy’s heroines run away from home, crossdress, shape-shift; they outwit, slay, rescue, lead.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/12/21/fairy-fatale/
Language, divinity, and race in the New World.
In ‘A Night at the Sweet Gum Head,’ Martin Padgett tells the story of Atlanta’s queer liberation movement through the alternating biographies of runaway-turned-drag queen John Greenwell an...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/08/18/what-is-drag-anyway/
The long-held myth goes that on June 19, 1865, Union general Gordon Granger stood on the balcony of Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and read the order that announced the end of slavery. Thoug...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/06/18/celebrating-juneteenth-in-galveston/
The world needs to be rebuilt. How much of the past will we discard and how much will we keep?
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/04/17/in-the-name-of-notre-dame/
He was looking for a chemical mixture—a potion or tonic perhaps—that would give him eternal youth. Instead, when it caught fire, the ninth-century Chinese alchemist discovered gunpowder. F...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/07/04/the-philosopher-of-the-firework/
Fifty years later, we look back at the student-led protests that shook Paris in May 1968 and have occupied the French political imagination ever since. The events of May 1968 in France emer...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/01/may-68-a-great-lyrical-community/