Hecker’s work points back to Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1876 poem L’Après-midi d’un faune—and its subsequent musical and ...

turned impotent, and had to be divorced. The nineteenth century, for all its love ...

To coax pale horses from the edge of a wet, blue field.

From Vienna it’s picture-postcard all the way. Tell me, was ever such a land at ease! The fat farms glistening, the polished pigs.

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gave me. I cared for it faithfully, ...

I wake them up. I bring them breakfast. They complain—it’s too early. They would like to listen to Bizet’s Carmen. They are ...

What if I told you the truth? What if I could?

The character of Stefan Mihal has functioned partly as a red herring and partly as a doppelganger for photographer Michals. His name derives from Michals’ middle and last names in their original Czech ...

It seemed obvious in planning a number devoted to humor that The Paris Review should approach Harold Bloom, the distinguished Yale academic and critic, author of the recently published The Western ...