The Paris Review

The Paris Review is a quarterly literary magazine published in English that was founded in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its early years, the magazine featured works from notable authors such as Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, Terry Southern, Adrienne Rich, Italo Calvino, Samuel Beckett, Nadine Gordimer, Jean Genet, and Robert Bly. One of its most acclaimed features is the "Writers at Work" series, which includes interviews with famous writers like Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote, Joan Didion, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Irwin Shaw, Elizabeth Bishop, and Vladimir Nabokov, among many others. This series has been recognized as a significant effort in preserving cultural history. In 1973, The Paris Review relocated its headquarters from Paris to New York City. George Plimpton served as the editor from its inception until he passed away in 2003, and since 2010, Lorin Stein has taken on the role of editor.

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What Stirs the Life in You? The Garden Asks - The Paris Review

3 weeks ago | theparisreview.org | Sophie Haigney |Olivia Kan-Sperling

By Sophie Haigney and Olivia Kan-Sperling April 3, 2025 Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the Review’s site. Often we’re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that stack up on our desks and spill over onto our shelves. We sometimes share them with each other on Slack, and we thought, for a change, that we might share them with you.
The Paris Review - Tracings - The Paris Review

4 weeks ago | theparisreview.org | Sarah Aziza

By Sarah Aziza March 26, 2025 Occasionally, when we were small, our father spoke to us of geography. Daddy is from a place called Palestine, he said, in a lesson captured by my mother on the family’s camcorder. In the footage, my father sits in a small rocking chair, brown eyes intent, a little shy.
The Paris Review - Happy Hundredth Birthday, Flannery O'Connor! - The Paris Review

1 month ago | theparisreview.org | Jamie Quatro

By Jamie Quatro March 25, 2025 A painting in Blair Hobbs’s new exhibition features a cut-out drawing of Flannery O’Connor in a pearl choker and purple V-necked dress. She’s flanked by drawings of peacocks and poppies; a birthday cake on metallic gold paper floats above her head. It is titled, like the exhibition, Birthday Cake for Flannery.
Margo Jefferson, The Art of Criticism No. 6

1 month ago | theparisreview.org | Hilton Als

Interviewed by Hilton Als Margo Jefferson was born in Chicago in 1947, to Irma and Ronald Jefferson, two members of what W. E. B. Du Bois once described as the Talented Tenth, or the Black leadership class.
The Prom of the Colorado River - The Paris Review

1 month ago | theparisreview.org | Meg Bernhard

By Meg Bernhard March 11, 2025 Alfalfa smells warm and earthy and sort of sweet, like socks after a long hike, but not in a bad way. It is soft, with oblong green leaves the size of a pinkie nail.I know this because on a chilly February afternoon I drove a hundred and forty miles to the Imperial Valley, one of the state’s largest farming regions, pulled over to an unattended field, and ripped up a clump.
Making a Claim on Language: A Conversation with Adania Shibli - The Paris Review

1 month ago | theparisreview.org | Max Weiss

By Max Weiss March 10, 2025 The Winter issue of The Paris Review opens with “Camouflage,” a story by Adania Shibli, the first line of which nudges us, ominously, toward a much broader picture: “We have nothing to do with what’s happening.” And yet what’s happening in the story itself isn’t initially clear.
Horrific Surrealism: Writing on Migration - The Paris Review

1 month ago | theparisreview.org | Viet Thanh Nguyen

By Viet Thanh Nguyen March 6, 2025 My father has crossed many borders. Born in northern Việt Nam under French rule in 1933, he was educated in a French Catholic school. More than eighty years later, a widower, he could still sing fragments of French songs when we sat together at the dining table. The meal I could prepare which he most enjoyed was filet mignon, medium rare, with a glass of red wine.
Helen Garner, The Art of Fiction No. 255

1 month ago | theparisreview.org | Thessaly La Force

The critic Fredric Jameson died at the age of ninety on September 22, 2024, a little more than a year after the first of the three conversations that form the basis of the text below. In spite of Jameson’s years, the news came as something of a shock, given the productivity he kept up into his tenth decade.
Accurate Models of Reality - The Paris Review

1 month ago | theparisreview.org | Sophie Haigney |Olivia Kan-Sperling

By Sophie Haigney and Olivia Kan-Sperling March 4, 2025 Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the Review’s site. Often we’re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that stack up on our desks and spill over onto our shelves. We sometimes share them with each other on Slack, and we thought, for a change, that we might share them with you.
On Helen Garner’s Diaries - The Paris Review

1 month ago | theparisreview.org | Leslie Jamison

By Leslie Jamison March 3, 2025 What secret desires and resentments are tucked inside the people we love? A little girl’s diary, with its tiny lock and key, testifies to the impulse to keep parts of ourselves hidden, but it’s impossible to look at a locked diary without imagining breaking it open. What to do then, with the published diary?