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Now Mend My Silks, Boy, and Other News
From Les Modes magazine, 1910. Happy International Women’s Day. A century ago, in Paris, as the Great War raged, women were putting on pairs of coveralls and taking to the factories, trying to...
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To Have and Have Not
New letters shed light on Hemingway’s unrequited love and early life. Letters from 1918 written to Frances Coates, for whom Hemingway carried a torch. Next to the letters is Hemingway’s high school...
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Reading and Eating Paris
All images from Hazel and Hewstone Raymenton’s travel journal, England and France, July 1914. By permission of Special Collections, University of Iowa Libraries. Memories of Paris are entwined with...
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Travel Snapshots from an Odyssey
Daniel Mendelsohn’s memoir, An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, begins when his eighty-one-year-old father, Jay Mendelsohn, enrolls in Daniel’s undergraduate seminar on the Odyssey. From those...
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Cooking with Sybille Bedford
This is the fifth installment of Valerie Stivers’s Eat Your Words column. The decline of the continental European aristocracy just before World War I doesn’t sound like a promising period for food …...
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Cooking with Naguib Mahfouz
In Valerie Stivers’s Eat Your Words series, she cooks up recipes drawn from the works of various writers. The West has a long-held obsession with the roles of women in Muslim societies. The Cairo...
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Postcards from the Propaganda Front
Heil Hitler Work Bread, pop-up card, color lithograph on card stock. All images courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston For most of human history, transmitting an image quickly and across long...
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The Paris Review Staff’s Favorite Books of 2018
Lucia Berlin in Oakland, California, 1975. Photo: Jeff Berlin (© 2018 Literary Estate of Lucia Berlin LP). 2018 has been a year of fragments, brief episodes, flashes. The seasons, at least here on the...
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To All the Introductions I’ve Loved Before
Konrad Kachelofen’s printing of Eclogue of Theodulus, 1492. Public domain. “I never read introductions,” says Rose, the younger of my two daughters. She thinks it over for a second, frowns; the...
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Virginia Woolf’s Forgotten Diary
Virginia Woolf, wearing a fur stole. Public domain, courtesy of wikimedia commons. On August 3, 1917, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary for the first time in two years—a small notebook, roughly the...
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