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A Few Notes on Presiding over the Punch Bowl
William Hogarth, A Midnight Modern Conversation, 1730 March 21st was my maternal grandparents’ wedding anniversary; they were married in 1946 in Silver Spring, Maryland, my grandmother’s hometown. As a...
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Queen o’ the May
The Elfin May-Pole, a Mardi Gras float design for Krewe of Proteus, New Orleans, 1887. The other day, I received the sweetest note from an old neighbor of my family’s commenting on the beauty of spring...
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Richard Howard Will Receive Our 2017 Hadada Award
Save the date: The Paris Review’s annual gala, the Spring Revel, will be Tuesday, April 4, 2017, at Cipriani 42nd Street. We’ll honor Richard Howard with our Hadada Award. Howard’s writing first...
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Madame Bovary’s Wedding Cake
Still from the 1949 adaptation of Madame Bovary, starring Jennifer Jones. There is a certain tradition in French cuisine with a paradoxical connection to French history: following the revolution,...
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