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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Your World is Your Street: A Studio Visit with Agosto Machado

2 days ago | theparisreview.org | Nadja Spiegelman

By Nadja Spiegelman June 5, 2025 Agosto Machado’s apartment and studio on East Third Street is crammed, floor to ceiling, with steel bookcases bursting with books and boxes of files. Colorful printed fabrics are draped over the shelves, concealing most of their contents. In the areas left exposed, there are framed photographs of icons like the Warhol muse Candy Darling and the gay liberation activist Marsha P.
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5 days ago | theparisreview.org | Sophie Haigney |Olivia Kan-Sperling

By Sophie Haigney and Olivia Kan-Sperling June 2, 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.
A Missive Sent Straight from the Mayhem: On Michelle Tea’s Valencia

2 weeks ago | theparisreview.org | Maggie Nelson

By Maggie Nelson May 21, 2025 Michelle Tea once described Valencia as “a snapshot, more or less, of my twenty-fifth year on earth, written not how it happened but how I felt it happened.” It feels right, then, in a numerological sense, to be addressing Tea’s classic twenty-five years after its turn-of-the-millennium publication.
John Ashbery’s Analyst

3 weeks ago | theparisreview.org | Hannah Zeavin

By Hannah Zeavin May 12, 2025 John Ashbery was analyzed by Carlos Carrillo. Jane Freilicher was analyzed by Edmund Bergler. Bernadette Mayer was in analysis with David Rubinfine. Kenneth Koch was analyzed by Rudolph Loewenstein. James Schuyler was hospitalized at Payne Whitney and Bloomingdale, where the day got slowly started. John Wieners was sent to Medfield and then sent us Asylum Poems. Was Barbara Guest analyzed?
Souvenirs by Sophie Haigney and Olivia Kan-Sperling

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

By Sophie Haigney and Olivia Kan-Sperling May 1, 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.
Man of the West: Akutagawa’s Tragic Hero

1 month ago | theparisreview.org | Geoffrey Mak

By Geoffrey Mak April 28, 2025 On the night of July 24, 1927, Ryunosuke Akutagawa swallowed a lethal amount of Veronal, slipped onto a futon beside his wife, and fell asleep reading the Bible. The writer was thirty-five years old.
On Fish Tales: A Forgotten Erotic Novel of Raw Longing and Fierce Freedom

1 month ago | theparisreview.org | Danielle Jackson

By Danielle A. Jackson April 25, 2025 Fish Tales, first published in 1983, is a novel told in short, vivid vignettes. A woman named Lewis comes of age hardscrabble in early sixties Detroit. It was a difficult time to be born a girl. Teachers slept with students without consequence; an unexpected pregnancy meant you could be expelled. Secrets and illegal abortions, it seemed, were the best ways for a girl to hold onto her pride.
The Marriage Dividend - The Paris Review

1 month ago | theparisreview.org | Laurie Stone

By Laurie Stone April 17, 2025 Something has changed since Richard and I got married in December. I’m not sure what. Have you ever looked in the mirror and noticed you are able to cock one eyebrow higher than ever before? I’m happier. I didn’t imagine I would feel this way when I went downstairs to his studio and said, “I think we should get married.” He looked up from his book and said, “Okay.” Was he bemused, half smiling? I can’t remember.
What Stirs the Life in You? The Garden Asks - The Paris Review

2 months 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.
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2 months 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.