The Paris Review
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Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.
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· Sep 16
Our Fall issue is here—featuring interviews with Maggie Nelson and Eliot Weinberger, prose by Bud Smith and Yan Lianke, poetry by Patricia Lockwood and Ishion Hutchinson, art by Martha Diamond and Talia Chetrit, a cover by Issy Wood, and more: ssl.drgnetwork.com/flex/TPR/253/
Introducing The Paris Review’s first-ever puzzle, featuring the cover of issue no. 91, selected from the archive for maximum difficulty and enjoyment. buff.ly/Rt39LLm
November 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Introducing The Paris Review’s first-ever puzzle, featuring the cover of issue no. 91, selected from the archive for maximum difficulty and enjoyment. buff.ly/Rt39LLm
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
November 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
“The writer should have considered his wit and dried his tears long, long before setting out to evoke similar reactions in a reader… the greatest intensity in art in all its shapes is achieved with a deliberate, hard, and cool head.” —Truman Capote
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November 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“The writer should have considered his wit and dried his tears long, long before setting out to evoke similar reactions in a reader… the greatest intensity in art in all its shapes is achieved with a deliberate, hard, and cool head.” —Truman Capote
“I read everything. I read my way out of the two libraries in Harlem by the time I was thirteen. One does learn a great deal about writing this way.” —James Baldwin
James Baldwin, The Art of Fiction No. 78
“After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So—Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.”
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November 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“I read everything. I read my way out of the two libraries in Harlem by the time I was thirteen. One does learn a great deal about writing this way.” —James Baldwin
This limited-edition sweatshirt reproduces an oil pastel drawing from a forthcoming portfolio by the artist Joan Jonas, to appear in issue no. 254 (Winter 2025). buff.ly/3vwjn9k
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This limited-edition sweatshirt reproduces an oil pastel drawing from a forthcoming portfolio by the artist Joan Jonas, to appear in issue no. 254 (Winter 2025). buff.ly/3vwjn9k
“The next day, he sent a text that he’d died, got hit by a car—again in the Family Dollar parking lot!—but they’d brought him back to life.”
An essay by Lisa Carver. buff.ly/Y6BLyBf
An essay by Lisa Carver. buff.ly/Y6BLyBf
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“The next day, he sent a text that he’d died, got hit by a car—again in the Family Dollar parking lot!—but they’d brought him back to life.”
An essay by Lisa Carver. buff.ly/Y6BLyBf
An essay by Lisa Carver. buff.ly/Y6BLyBf
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“Between the ages of twenty and thirty, I read with a voraciousness unmatched in any other decade of my life. I was trying to become less stupid.” —Jeffrey Eugenides buff.ly/hNKX5W0
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“Between the ages of twenty and thirty, I read with a voraciousness unmatched in any other decade of my life. I was trying to become less stupid.” —Jeffrey Eugenides buff.ly/hNKX5W0
“You build a novel. You have to build it like a building so that it stays standing when you’re not in it.” —Rachel Cusk buff.ly/GvLkqdJ
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“You build a novel. You have to build it like a building so that it stays standing when you’re not in it.” —Rachel Cusk buff.ly/GvLkqdJ
“It is like a priest or a psychiatrist; if you get the wrong one, then you are better off alone. But there are editors so rare and so important that they are worth searching for, and you always know when you have one.” —Toni Morrison
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November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“It is like a priest or a psychiatrist; if you get the wrong one, then you are better off alone. But there are editors so rare and so important that they are worth searching for, and you always know when you have one.” —Toni Morrison
This limited-edition knit blanket is a rendition of the cover of issue no. 56 (Spring 1973), featuring Meditation on the Theorem of Pythagoras by Mel Bochner (1940–2025). buff.ly/eGd15zY
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This limited-edition knit blanket is a rendition of the cover of issue no. 56 (Spring 1973), featuring Meditation on the Theorem of Pythagoras by Mel Bochner (1940–2025). buff.ly/eGd15zY
“My husband wanted to be who he was, and he wanted a happy wife. Not easy to have both at once!”
An essay by Lisa Carver. buff.ly/Y6BLyBf
An essay by Lisa Carver. buff.ly/Y6BLyBf
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“My husband wanted to be who he was, and he wanted a happy wife. Not easy to have both at once!”
An essay by Lisa Carver. buff.ly/Y6BLyBf
An essay by Lisa Carver. buff.ly/Y6BLyBf
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“If we can talk about destiny, I feel I have come out of mine. And I could be dead. I could die right now and that would be fine.” —Rachel Cusk
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November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“If we can talk about destiny, I feel I have come out of mine. And I could be dead. I could die right now and that would be fine.” —Rachel Cusk
Introducing The Paris Review’s first-ever puzzle, featuring the cover of issue no. 91, selected from the archive for maximum difficulty and enjoyment. buff.ly/Rt39LLm
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Introducing The Paris Review’s first-ever puzzle, featuring the cover of issue no. 91, selected from the archive for maximum difficulty and enjoyment. buff.ly/Rt39LLm
“I was married to a moody millionaire Parisian and I was trying to stay with him—I still loved certain things about him, and I loved everything about my stepchildren and the French way of life. But it was hard.”
An essay by Lisa Carver.
An essay by Lisa Carver.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“I was married to a moody millionaire Parisian and I was trying to stay with him—I still loved certain things about him, and I loved everything about my stepchildren and the French way of life. But it was hard.”
An essay by Lisa Carver.
An essay by Lisa Carver.
“Men often ask me, Why are your female characters so paranoid? It’s not paranoia. It’s recognition of their situation.” —Margaret Atwood
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November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“Men often ask me, Why are your female characters so paranoid? It’s not paranoia. It’s recognition of their situation.” —Margaret Atwood
This limited-edition sweatshirt reproduces an oil pastel drawing from a forthcoming portfolio by the artist Joan Jonas, to appear in issue no. 254 (Winter 2025).
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This limited-edition sweatshirt reproduces an oil pastel drawing from a forthcoming portfolio by the artist Joan Jonas, to appear in issue no. 254 (Winter 2025).
“By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.” —Louise Erdrich
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November 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.” —Louise Erdrich
“The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.” —Martin Amis
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November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.” —Martin Amis
“My model for prose is poet’s prose.” —Susan Sontag
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November 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“My model for prose is poet’s prose.” —Susan Sontag
“You’re always writing yourself in a novel. The author is always talking.” —John Mortimer
John Mortimer, The Art of Fiction No. 106
“Nothing equips you more for a life in letters than a career in the divorce court.”
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November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“You’re always writing yourself in a novel. The author is always talking.” —John Mortimer
“The phrase ‘close reading’ sounds as if you’re looking at the text with a microscope from outside, but I would rather think of a close reader as someone who goes inside a room and describes the architecture.” —Helen Vendler
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November 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“The phrase ‘close reading’ sounds as if you’re looking at the text with a microscope from outside, but I would rather think of a close reader as someone who goes inside a room and describes the architecture.” —Helen Vendler
“My ideal for writing fiction is to put Dostoyevsky and Chandler together in one book.” —Haruki Murakami
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November 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“My ideal for writing fiction is to put Dostoyevsky and Chandler together in one book.” —Haruki Murakami