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    Staff Picks: Spooks, Oddballs, Dopes

    by The Paris Review Aug 11, 2017 4 minutes

    Jan Morris.

    I went to visit Jan Morris in North Wales a few months ago and heard her saying some of the same things you will hear in this recording. Nothing made me miss America—and especially New York—more than hearing this distinctly English woman, ninety years of age, lyrically and lovingly reminisce about her time there. “I’ve loved America since I first knew it twelve presidencies ago,” she says, “and I love and honor all that’s best about it today.” —Mitzi Angel

    The current issue of contains an essay so good, so expressionistic and yet so cooly observed, that it made me think of Didion or Naipaul at their best. In “,” Rana Dasgupta uses the death of a nineteen-year-old girl,

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