Quantcast
Channel: Maxine Kumin – The Paris Review
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 8 View Live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Eliot’s Darker Side, and Other News

Eliot in 1934, photographed by Lady Ottoline Morrell. “Everyone wants to be clever—it’s hard to give up that side and go blindly for stupidity. But even more frightening was the fact that it was so...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Remembering Maxine Kumin

Photograph: Water Street Books. Maxine Kumin died last week, at eighty-eight. A Pulitzer winner and former poet laureate, Kumin perfected a style that was direct, piercing, and gimlet-eyed—her verse...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Bastille Day Sale

George Plimpton loved Bastille Day. He also loved the Fourth of July and Saint Patrick’s Day—any event, really, that occasioned a parade and the shooting off of fireworks. “Ecstasy after ecstasy” and...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Redux: The Famous Sideshow

Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 8 View Live




Latest Images