Before the sweat, before the bench press, before the sauna, before the shower, before placing my hand around a man, inside a ...

What Broderick is attempting is a French novel set in an Irish town; he wishes to put dangerous liaisons into the Irish midlands, to allow his Irish characters the freedom to pray to God for their ...

It was a hot day in June.

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 ...

Pakay’s photographs of Baldwin are currently on view in Turkey Saved My Life: Baldwin in Istanbul, 1961–1971, an exhibition ...

Tadeusz Dąbrowski on stage at the Shakespeare Theatre in Gdansk, Poland.

Saint, terrorist, fishwife. Stench that appals. Famines, machine guns, the Great Plague (your sickness), Rending of garments, cries, mass burials. I'd watched my beard sprout in the mirror's grave.

begets cruelty, and, before long, one would have to chop off one's own hand to end the source of self-torture. Yet, we ...

mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.