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The author of “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All” and “White People” on growing up in a gossipy village and the ways America has changed.

New Directions covers from the mid-twentieth century are easy to spot but difficult to describe, often using pictures to describe words rather than the other way around.

This year's lineup at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center includes Thomas Adès, Joyce Yang, Alisa Weilerstein, Anthony McGill, Conrad Tao, The Takacs Quartet, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Geneva Lewis and more

Five years on from her acclaimed novel Ordinary People, the writer returns to explore the lives of black British Londoners. She talks about Grenfell, belonging – and how she writes to bear witness

On a book by Akwugo Emejulu, a story by Sylvia Townsend Warner, and a film by Aideen Barry.

In Lorraine Hansberry's "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window," Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan are a beatnik couple always at odds.

The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.

The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.

The American writer Russell Banks, who wrote about the lives of working-class people and historical figures such as John Brown, died on January 3 at the age of 82.

“I don’t find myself that interesting either.”