The Paired Review
Martin van OrdenGenre-blending mini-essays on books in conversation.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 13 | Founded | 6 months ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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Reverse Haunting: Wretch / The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion
Wretch (Eric LaRocca, 2026) and The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Margaret Killjoy, 2017) are narratives of what LaRocca calls “reverse haunting”: a living person who chases a dead one, fixed on understanding a loved one’s death as a way of...
Memory as Technology: Ninefox Gambit / The Ophiuchi Hotline
The Ophiuchi Hotline (John Varley, 1977) begins with an act of violence with philosophical implications. Lilo-Alexandr-Calypso is in Lunar prison awaiting execution for illegal human cloning and genetic experimentation. A corrupt politician...
Erotic Theology: Holy Sonnets / Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
For an atheist, I read a remarkable amount of Christian devotional poetry. I’m interested in poetic form and European literary history, and if you want to read a sonnet written before about 1900, pretty much all of the ones that aren’t sedu...
A Good Samurai Will Parry the Blow: The Last Samurai / The Fountain Overflows
The Last Samurai (Helen DeWitt, 2000) and The Fountain Overflows (Rebecca West, 1956) are cult classics: intermittently in and out of print, drawing limited but intense circles of fans, love-it-or-hate it novels. I love both, of course. Mor...
The Deep Fovea: The Peregrine / No One Is Talking About This
The Peregrine (J.A. Baker, 1967) and No One Is Talking About This (Patricia Lockwood, 2021) are two books about watching something carefully for a long time. The word “focus” in a generic sense usually makes me think of academia, or maybe t...
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