"Chateaubriand’s life was, as he says of Récamier’s, 'at once so impressive and so secluded.'” Eric Byrd reviews the third installment of his MEMOIRS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social), translated by Alex Andriesse. ocreviewofbooks.org/2025/12/27/m...

Never before in English translation, Marina Tsvetaeva's THE STORY OF SONECHKA "brings Russianless readers very close to Tsvetaeva in a pivotal season of creation and witness." Eric Byrd reviews the book from Cherry Orchard Books (Academic Studies Press). ocreviewofbooks.org/2025/10/20/m...

Buon compleanno a Fleur Jaeggy.

Peter Brooks' HENRY JAMES COMES HOME "charts a journey, clarifies an itinerary, and identifies the encounters in which a writer’s later reflections are rooted." Eric Byrd reviews the book from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. ocreviewofbooks.org/2025/06/13/p...

RIP 1940-2025. His best books, to my mind.

We at the Review mourn the loss of Edmund White (1940-2025). In celebration of his life and work, we’ve unlocked his Art of Fiction interview from our archive. www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2...

“The white male middlebrow canon”! As a teen I loved Hesse and Henry Miller but found the Beats mawkish. A related canon consists of writers whose reputations shed an attractive maudit glamor (Baudelaire, Mayakovsky), but who quickly showed they had much, much more to offer, and remain favorites.

"The truth and the post-truth, properly applied, can and should be effective partners in the pursuit of a free and harmonious society." Anthony David Vernon reviews François Noudelmann's CAN WE MAKE TRUTH GREAT AGAIN? from Max Milo Editions. ocreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/13/f...

‘For fifty years he has been involving us in questions about cinema – what it is, what it might be, whether it matters. Above all, he has insisted on beauty, and his films have us wondering whether beauty is truth or a trick.’ David Thomson on Terrence Malick: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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“The doctorate was also a good pretext for going to London. Mornings in the British Library and afternoons in the Warburg Institute. Or the opposite. An ideal life.”

“I’ve learned things about writing from each of them. Auden’s penultimate rhyming, Elizabeth’s way of contradicting something she’s just said, Stevens’s odd glamorizing of philosophical terms.” We’ve unlocked our interview with James Merrill. buff.ly/376XqQQ

An old essay, but Gogol has been on my mind lately, and so Dolinin too.