Paris Review #253 2025 city guide while in others she conjures

while in others she conjures up optical illusions with repeating lines and patterns

and Deema Assaf—contribute reflections

abandoned buildings and unfinished infrastructures

with promising subjects that instinctively engage herself and the viewer

Experimental Zone documents a remarkable experiment in spatial research at the interdisciplinary laboratory Image Knowledge Gestaltung at Berlin’s Humboldt University

Paris Review #253 2025 city guide while in others she conjuresEliot Weinberger on the Art of the Essay: I have no interest in first person investigation. Personally, Ive never found myself an interesting person. Maggie Nelson on the Art of Nonfiction: Its important to notice when the spark of magic or curiosity is there and what snuffs it out, and being around too many writers, for me, snuffs it out. Prose by Anne Carson, Renny Gong, Aurora Huiza, Jordy Rosenberg, Bud Smith, and Yan Lianke. Poetry by Roque