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Green Car, Nightfall
Photograph by Boosbob50. One day when my father’s car overheated down in Chula Vista, he came home with beans in a can the size of an oil drum. “This is what the real Mexicans eat,” he announced. That...
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Southern Holiday, Part 2
A bricked-in tree at Mepkin Gardens. A week before I began my holiday road trip in December, I learned that in 1936 Time Life’s founder and publisher, Henry Luce, and his wife, the flamboyant Clare...
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America’s Public Libraries
A photo essay for National Library Week. Pause Play Play Prev | Next There are approximately seventeen thousand public libraries in the United States. Since I began this project in 1994, I have...
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Flannery’s Farm
Andalusia and the ache of identity. Flannery O’Connor in the driveway at Andalusia, 1962. © Joe McTyre/Atlanta Constitution. You can judge how far outside of Atlanta you are by the gasoline prices. My...
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The Game of the Name: The Answers
This week’s puzzle is officially over—in record time, may we add, after only one day. Thanks to all who entered. Our winner is Chris Hurst, who answered every one of the riddles. He gets a free...
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#ReadEverywhere, Even Upside-Down
Just three weeks left, folks: until the end of August, we’re offering a joint subscription to The Paris Review and the London Review of Books for just $70 U.S. Already a Paris Review subscriber? Not a...
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#ReadEverywhere, Even As You Slide
You have just two more weeks to get a joint subscription to The Paris Review and the London Review of Books for just $70 U.S. (Already a Paris Review subscriber? Not a problem: we’ll extend your...
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#ReadEverywhere, Even If You’re Not a Real Person
This is it, people: the final week to get a joint subscription to The Paris Review and the London Review of Books for just $70 U.S. (Already a Paris Review subscriber? Not a problem: we’ll extend your...
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#ReadEverywhere, Even When You Can’t Breathe
It’s your last chance, folks: you have two more days to get a joint subscription to The Paris Review and the London Review of Books for just $70 U.S. (Already a Paris Review subscriber? Not a problem:...
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Repo Man: Glen Campbell in Charles Portis’s Norwood
Glen Campbell was the perfect articulator of Portis’s defiantly at-odds small-town characters and their old-fashioned dreams. Glen Campbell in 1967. Like most sharecroppers’ kids, the country singer...
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