Tag: literature

• Modernist Blondes

  July 27, 2025

  July 24, 2025 – On Anita Loos’s Great American Novel. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/07/24/modernist-blondes/?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2a54aab99d-TPRMailchimp_20250725_WEEKLY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_35491ea532-2a54aab99d-56488262&mc_cid=2a54aab99d&mc_eid=f0a2685ef4 more ›

• Days of The Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business

  July 15, 2025

  Andrew Wylie, the world’s most renowned – and for a long time its most reviled – literary agent, is 76 years old. Over the past four decades, he has reshaped… more ›

• Inside Toni Morrison’s editorial career at Random House.

  June 19, 2025

  Toni Morrison was an editor for 12 years, even as she wrote her own masterpieces. I spoke to her authors about being edited by an icon. https://slate.com/culture/2025/06/toni-morrison-editor-random-house-muhammad-ali.html more ›

• Using GPT-4 to measure the passage of time in fiction

  June 1, 2024

  Language models have been compared to parrots, but the bigger danger is that they turn people into parrots. A student who asks for “a paper about Middlemarch,” for instance, will… more ›

• From Dresden on the 50th Anniversary of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’

  March 22, 2019

  DRESDEN, Germany — Last month, 74 years to the day since the bombers came, the late winter sky was gray as German tour guide Danilo Hommel called a halt before… more ›

• Here are the Biggest Fiction Bestsellers of the Last 100 Years

  December 3, 2018

  Here are the Biggest Fiction Bestsellers of the Last 100 Years As the year draws to a close, some of us like to look forward, and some of us backward—and… more ›

• Taylor Swift’s “Wildest Dreams” video plays into…

  September 2, 2015

  Taylor Swift’s “Wildest Dreams” video plays into every African stereotype » This post has been corrected. Taylor Swift’s latest single, Wildest Dreams, is quickly being panned for its romantic portrayal… more ›