The Paris Review Winter 25 Verso Books on one condition: having left

on one condition: having left home

With essays by Max Dax

Softness is a poetic reflection on hand-knitting and the neglected objects that give us nourishment

and linguistic ecstasy

then known as “meat pieces

The Paris Review Winter 25 Verso Books on one condition: having leftHlne Cixous on the Art of Criticism: Theres a feminist discourse that women cant do it all. This is what many women experience, and its very difficult. But I am not like that. Alice Oswald on the Art of Poetry: You come at poetry with the momentum of having failed. Its only when other communication is absolutely impossible that a poem has to exist. Prose by Eve Babitz, Marlene Morgan, Alec Niedenthal, Gwendoline Riley, and Elias Rodriques. Poetry by