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Paul Murray on “That’s My Bike!”
Paul Murray. Photograph by Cormac Scully. Paul Murray, author of Skippy Dies and An Evening of Long Goodbyes, wrote “That’s My Bike!,” a short story published in the Winter issue of The Paris Review....
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An Arrow in Flight: The Pleasures of Mary Lavin
Joyce Carol Oates called her one of the finest short-story writers of the twentieth century, and there’s much to love about the work of Mary Lavin, whose centenary falls this week; there’s the...
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Where’s Leo?
Two years ago yesterday I followed a man dressed in black into a small pharmacy in Dublin. Bars of yellow soap covered the shop’s dark wooden shelves and countertops. I watched from across the shop as...
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Everyday Blasphemies
Dubliners at one hundred. An illustration by Stephen Crowe for de Selby Press’s new edition of Dubliners. It was a priest who first convinced me to read Dubliners. On the face of it, this might seem...
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Two Irreducible Singlenesses
Beckett’s doodles in the notebooks for Murphy (1938)A letter from Samuel Beckett to Cissie Sinclair, his aunt, dated August 14, 1937. At the time, Beckett was trying, fitfully and without much success,...
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Something in the Blood, Part 2
To celebrate the spookiest of holidays, we’re publishing a selection of excerpts from David J. Skal’s Something in the Blood, a biography of Bram Stoker, published this month by Liveright. Today: a...
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The Moviegoer: An Interview with Fanny Howe
Fanny Howe. Photo: Cybele Knowles. Our Winter issue features a poem by Fanny Howe, whose latest book, The Needle’s Eye, came out in October. At seventy-six, Howe has published sixteen books of...
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Straightening out Ulysses
A translator’s notes. Samuel Frederick Brocas, The Ha’Penny Bridge, Dublin, 1818. The indefatigable Bernard Hœpffner, who translated many English masterpieces into French—among them Huckleberry Finn,...
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From Throwing Sticks at Roosters to Dwarf Tossing
On the human desire to hurl (and hurl things at) animals, and other humans. In the fourth volume of Brett’s Miscellany, published in Dublin in 1757, readers could find an entry on a custom called...
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Paul Murray, author of Skippy Dies and An Evening of Long Goodbyes, wrote “That’s My Bike!,” a short story published in the Winter issue of The Paris Review. The story opens with a group of friends...
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An Arrow in Flight: The Pleasures of Mary Lavin
Joyce Carol Oates called her one of the finest short-story writers of the twentieth century, and there’s much to love about the work of Mary Lavin, whose centenary falls this week; there’s the...
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Where’s Leo?
Two years ago yesterday I followed a man dressed in black into a small pharmacy in Dublin. Bars of yellow soap covered the shop’s dark wooden shelves and countertops. I watched from across the shop as...
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Everyday Blasphemies
Dubliners at one hundred. An illustration by Stephen Crowe for de Selby Press’s new edition of Dubliners. It was a priest who first convinced me to read Dubliners. On the face of it, this might seem...
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Two Irreducible Singlenesses
Beckett’s doodles in the notebooks for Murphy (1938) A letter from Samuel Beckett to Cissie Sinclair, his aunt, dated August 14, 1937. At the time, Beckett was trying, fitfully and without much...
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Something in the Blood, Part 2
To celebrate the spookiest of holidays, we’re publishing a selection of excerpts from David J. Skal’s Something in the Blood, a biography of Bram Stoker, published this month by Liveright. Today: a...
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The Moviegoer: An Interview with Fanny Howe
Fanny Howe. Photo: Cybele Knowles. Our Winter issue features a poem by Fanny Howe, whose latest book, The Needle’s Eye, came out in October. At seventy-six, Howe has published sixteen books of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Straightening out Ulysses
A translator’s notes. Samuel Frederick Brocas, The Ha’Penny Bridge, Dublin, 1818. The indefatigable Bernard Hœpffner, who translated many English masterpieces into French—among them Huckleberry Finn,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
From Throwing Sticks at Roosters to Dwarf Tossing
On the human desire to hurl (and hurl things at) animals, and other humans. In the fourth volume of Brett’s Miscellany, published in Dublin in 1757, readers could find an entry on a custom called...
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