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View this email in your browser FIRST PERSON I Cannot Lucy Schiller "Both overassertion and hand-waving seem to be sidesteps around saying something. Like that formal wall: Is it guarding something?" ON SPORTS Undisputed: Fury vs. Usyk Declan Ryan "Neither man had, until this night, encountered a problem in a professional ring to which they couldn't find the solution." DISPATCH Chasing It Down the Elevator Shaft to the Subconscious: Or, Getting Hypnotized Jeremy Butman "The image was almost certainly a false memory—perhaps derived from a dream—or some kind of psychological projection. But I'd been wrong in this assumption before." DINNER PARTIES Top Three Rivers Christopher Chang "We went straight into the seedy topics of sex, uppers, downers, and then, specifically, heroin."   THE REVIEW'S REVIEW Interrupted, Again Joanna Kavenna "Who's to say that Coleridge didn't interrupt the Person from Porlock, rather than the other way round?" Copyright © 2024 The Paris Review. All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Our mailing address is: The Paris Review 544 West 27th Street 3rd Floor New York, New York 10001 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe if you must.