6 Best poetry books like The Paris Review, Issue 247, Spring 2024 by Emily Stokes

Cover of The Paris Review, Issue 247, Spring 2024 by Emily Stokes

The Paris Review, Issue 247, Spring 2024

By: Emily Stokes

4.07

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

Jhumpa Lahiri on the Art of Fiction: “My question is, What makes a language yours, or mine?” Alice …

If you liked the poetry plot in The Paris Review, Issue 247, Spring 2024 by Emily Stokes , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6) by Marcel Proust, None, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright

1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Format: 957 pages, Paperback

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more

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  • fiction
"...every social class has its own pathology..."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

Cover of By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño, Chris    Andrews

2. By Night in Chile

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more

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  • fiction
"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

3. Erasure

By: Percival Everett

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more

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Cover of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

4. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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5. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

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  • fiction
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

Cover of Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri

6. Roman Stories

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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7. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

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  • poetry
  • fiction
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8. Help Wanted

By: Adelle Waldman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Wild Houses by Colin  Barrett

9. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

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  • fiction
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

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10. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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  • fiction
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

Cover of Parade by Rachel Cusk

11. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • fiction
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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12. Our Strangers: Stories

By: Lydia Davis

3.92

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Only available at independent bookstores and libraries, by request of the author. From one of the m… read more

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  • poetry
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Paris Review, Issue 247, Spring 2024 by Emily Stokes

13. The Paris Review, Issue 247, Spring 2024

By: Emily Stokes

4.07

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

Jhumpa Lahiri on the Art of Fiction: “My question is, What makes a language yours, or mine?” Alice … read more

Similar categories in Emily Stokes's The Paris Review, Issue 247, Spring 2024 book and Emily Stokes's The Paris Review, Issue 247, Spring 2024

  • poetry
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays by Elisa Gabbert

14. Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays

By: Elisa Gabbert

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of Liars by Sarah Manguso

15. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

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  • fiction
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

Cover of Poetry Foundation Magazine, May 2024 (Volume 224, Number 2) by Adrian Matejka

16. Poetry Foundation Magazine, May 2024 (Volume 224, Number 2)

By: Adrian Matejka

3.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

ADRIAN MATEJKA CATHERINE BARNETT ABDULKAREEM ABDULKAREEM ANDREA COHEN JODIE HOLLANDER STELLA W… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Poetry Foundation Magazine, Volume 224, Issue #3, June 2024 by Adrian Matejka

17. Poetry Foundation Magazine, Volume 224, Issue #3, June 2024

By: Adrian Matejka

3.78

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

This volume features works by Gboyega Odubanjo, Erika L. Sánchez, Dunya Mikhail, Kwame Dawes, Megha… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Granta 166: Generations by Thomas Meaney

18. Granta 166: Generations

By: Thomas Meaney

3.71

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

Baby-boomers, gen-X, millennials, the dividing lines among generations in literary culture have be… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Granta 167: Extraction by Thomas Meaney

19. Granta 167: Extraction

By: Thomas Meaney

3.73

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

The UK's most prestigious literary quarterly brings you prize-winning new fiction, reportage, memoi… read more

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Cover of Poetry Foundation Magazine, April 2024 (Volume 224, Number 1) by Adrian Matejka

20. Poetry Foundation Magazine, April 2024 (Volume 224, Number 1)

By: Adrian Matejka

3.73

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

ROSALIE MOFFETT SID GHOSH ISABELLA DESENDI MELANIE TAFEJIAN COREY VAN LANDINGHAM ARIEL FRANCIS… read more

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  • poetry

13 must-read fiction books like The Paris Review, Issue 247, Spring 2024 by Emily Stokes

Transform Your Habits

The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Transform Your Habits

By Night in Chile

Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.89

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Roman Stories

Jhumpa Lahiri

3.80

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17 best-selling poetry books like Poetry Foundation Magazine, May 2024 (Volume 224, Number 2) by Adrian Matejka

Transform Your Habits

Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Cynthia Marshall

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The Merry Wives of Windsor

William Shakespeare

3.55

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

Andrea Gibson

3.65

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