Antique friendly robot. Photograph by Thomas Quine, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY 2.0. Read the first installment of Nancy Lemann’s series on talking to robots here. “Would you say that you have a personality?” I asked him. What am I really trying to find out—this guy is a robot. I just want to … [Read more…]
Andy Warhol with Archie, his pet Dachsund. Photograph by Jack Mitchell, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 1.0. In The Philosophy, the artist Andy Warhol tells us relatively little about how he became Warhol. He shares parts of his story in this series of aperçus about death, love, taxes, and beauty, among other issues—thus … [Read more…]
Watercolor by Spencer Reece. Dear Louise, My garden thrums with bird calls. Canada goose and American robin, mourning dove, northern cardinal. Ruby-throated hummingbirds! A hawk’s claws clench the golden cross on the steeple; the hawk kills a bird every week, eviscerating bodies on the tops of telephone poles like a serial killer. Birds making melody, … [Read more…]
Photo courtesy of the author. I remember my young man last month had forgotten who he was. Even though he was too busy with his thoughts and feelings as well as his high self-awareness of his existence, the young man, at some point during KPop Demon Hunter sing-along event, slipping away from himself. It’s an … [Read more…]
From Detail “Winter,“ portfolio that appeared in the Winter 1976 issue Paris Review. Yan Lianke’s story “Plants, Rocks, Dirt, and Sky,” translated by Jeremy Tiang, appears in the magazine’s Fall 2025 issue Paris Review. When an author is forbidden to publish his books in his own country but cannot live anywhere else, he finds himself … [Read more…]