Introducing the Winter Issue
Jonathan Franzen has just given the deepest, most searching and revealing interview of his career. And we don’t mean on Oprah. You won’t find this interview on TV, on YouTube, or anywhere else on the...
View ArticleSanta Comes to White Street, Holds Monster Truck Rally, Lorin’s Head Explodes
Just in time to launch our December issue—out now!—Santa showed up in the person of longtime Review fan Paul Opperman, plus his friends Aaron Mirman (music), of the Duotone Audio Group, and Todd...
View ArticleLouise Erdrich Wins NBA for Fiction
We’d like to congratulate Louise Erdrich on her National Book Award for The Round House. The following quote, from her Art of Fiction interview, explores the author’s approach to writing: I take great...
View ArticleHere We Are: On the Occasion of Philip Roth’s Eightieth Birthday
Upon the occasion of Philip Roth’s eightieth birthday, acclaimed critic and biographer Hermione Lee likened the newly retired writer first to Shakespeare and then to one of his creations, The...
View ArticleIn Conversation
Seven years ago I was walking up Fifth Avenue with David Foster Wallace. He wanted to know what I thought of The Names. That one’s the key, he said, speaking of Don DeLillo’s work like it was a safe...
View ArticleThe Erotics of Architecture, and Other News
Dig those curves: the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, in Rio de Janeiro. Photo: Rodrigo Soldon In the summer of 2011, Phyllis Rose went to the New York Society Library and read one entire shelf...
View ArticleThe Words Are Everything
Our congratulations to Ursula K. Le Guin, who will receive the National Book Foundation’s 2014 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters: “Ursula Le Guin has had an extraordinary impact...
View ArticleInstagram Meets the Death Wish, and Other News
Richard Prince’s show, “New Portraits.” Photo: the Gagosian Gallery Richard Prince’s latest show: his Instagram feed, ink-jet-printed on canvas. “Is it art? Of course it’s art, though by a well-worn...
View ArticleUrgent Questions for Librarians, and Other News
A question to an NYPL librarian from October 1976. Photo: NYPL, via the Guardian “My idea of hell on earth,” Philip Larkin wrote once, “is a literary party.” He had in mind the Oxford parties of his...
View ArticleThe Borges Memorial Non-Lending Library of Imaginary Books
A brief survey of fictional books.Erik Desmazières, Library of Babel.I’m soon to move across the country, and surveying my bookcases—the three in the living room and the three in the bedroom, plus the...
View ArticleI See You in Your Car, and Other News
Photo: Mike Mandel, courtesy Robert Mann Gallery. What’s your most embarrassing hobby? Me, I like to take tens of thousands of dollars of photography equipment to a nice, busy intersection—Times...
View ArticleThe Blue Jay’s Dance
Revisited is a series in which writers look back on a work of art they first encountered long ago. Here, Sarah Menkedick revisits Louise Erdrich’s memoir, The Blue Jay’s Dance. From the first edition...
View ArticleThe Questionable Category of “Native American Literature”
“The object is beautiful in itself, worthy of appreciation as a whole and for its own sake.” … “And the single deep voice of the singers lay upon the dance, lay even upon the valley and the earth,...
View ArticleStaff Picks: Wade in the Water, Weiwei, and Williams
Tracy K Smith “Our bodies run with ink dark blood. / Blood pools in the pavement’s seams. Is it strange to say love is a language / Few practice, but all, or near all speak?” So begins Tracy K....
View ArticleRedux: Three for Dad
Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to...
View ArticleRedux: The Idea of Women’s Language
Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to...
View ArticleThe Words Are Everything
Our congratulations to Ursula K. Le Guin, who will receive the National Book Foundation’s 2014 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters: “Ursula Le Guin has had an extraordinary impact...
View ArticleInstagram Meets the Death Wish, and Other News
Richard Prince’s show, “New Portraits.” Photo: the Gagosian Gallery Richard Prince’s latest show: his Instagram feed, ink-jet-printed on canvas. “Is it art? Of course it’s art, though by a well-worn...
View ArticleUrgent Questions for Librarians, and Other News
A question to an NYPL librarian from October 1976. Photo: NYPL, via the Guardian “My idea of hell on earth,” Philip Larkin wrote once, “is a literary party.” He had in mind the Oxford parties of his...
View ArticleThe Borges Memorial Non-Lending Library of Imaginary Books
A brief survey of fictional books. Erik Desmazières, Library of Babel. I’m soon to move across the country, and surveying my bookcases—the three in the living room and the three in the bedroom, plus...
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