Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

The Paris Review

@parisreview.bsky.social

3.4K followers 74 following 1.5K posts

Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953. https://www.theparisreview.org/ https://theparisreview.substack.com/

www.theparisreview.org

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 24d

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/

7 40

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 8m

“Even now I have a huge resistance to getting to work, perhaps because my body knows how exhausting and shaming it’s going to be. I don’t want to go through the shame and the exhaustion!” —Deborah Eisenberg

buff.ly

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 2h

“All I wanted was to be published by New Directions—for me that was the temple of literature. So when James Laughlin said he wanted the translation, I achieved my ambition, and after that I could just worry about the work.” —Eliot Weinberger buff.ly/bV9E0Wn

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 18h

“For more than two years I wrote every day, without pause, until I had completed a manuscript of more than three hundred thousand words. Looking at the reams of paper, I interrogated myself.”

An essay by Yan Lianke, translated by Jeremy Tiang. buff.ly/xDOtWTX

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 18h

“One of the notebooks fell open. Cocks, hands, sucking, desire, mouths. I flipped through the pages. More cocks, more longing, more sucking.”

Susan Cheever on her father. buff.ly/S53IoK0

1 1 5

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 19h

Stay up to date with the Review by signing up for our Weekly newsletter. Each Friday, you’ll receive a recap of some of the most recent work we’ve published on our website.
buff.ly/l3BaFOP

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 20h

“You’re all in it together—lunatics, screaming sports fans chewing cigars, scuzzy men in checkered jackets with hacking coughs—you are all in it together, in something innocent.”

This week, we’ve unlocked “Sportsman’s Paradise” by Nancy Lemann from the archive. buff.ly/VAt9lMJ

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 22h

“By marrying my father, my mother changed her family status from being the pretty wannabe poet whom no one took seriously, to being the wife of a man they took very seriously.”

Susan Cheever on her father. buff.ly/S53IoK0

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 23h

“If you have a question about the universe, you always have a few possibilities—in particular through language. The power of the word is, for me, the only way to get closer to this hidden reality.”

We’ve unlocked our Art of Fiction interview with László Krasznahorkai.
buff.ly/5rxtimk

6 11

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 1d

“I have an encyclopedic knowledge of fifties television, including the lyrics to hundreds of standards from watching the variety shows and all the commercial jingles, for which, alas, there is no delete button in the brain.” —Eliot Weinberger buff.ly/bV9E0Wn

1 1 4

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 1d

“ ‘They murdered my son,’ he said, ‘and now the same settlers are coming back day after day, shooting at us, scaring our children, stealing our land.’ ”

A piece by Jasper Nathaniel.

A Hill to Die On by Jasper Nathaniel

October 8, 2025 – “I was in the nation’s capital along with a small delegation of American families who were grieving loved ones killed or abducted by Israeli settlers and soldiers.”

buff.ly

2 4

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 1d

“One day long after my sixtieth birthday, I’ll accept the inevitability of death, just as I accept that the world didn’t necessarily gain a person after my birth and it won’t necessarily lose a person after I’m gone.”

An essay by Yan Lianke. buff.ly/xDOtWTX

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 1d

“Every Sunday night, for instance, he decreed we would each recite a poem that we had memorized during the week.”

Susan Cheever on her father, John.

My Parents’ Marriage by Susan Cheever

October 7, 2025 – “When my father was alive, I thought I understood the unhappiness my parents caused each other.”

buff.ly

1 3

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 1d

“Each night, I take my sleeping pills and think about the inevitability of my passing. The pills don’t just curb my insomnia; more importantly, they help me forget death.”

An essay by Yan Lianke, translated by @jeremytiang.bsky.social.

Notes from a Hedgehog by Yan Lianke

October 7, 2025 – “Since turning sixty, I’ve thought about death every single day.”

buff.ly

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 1d

“The Corries had spent more than a decade making fruitless trips to D.C. and Israel in search of accountability—a public records request revealed a Justice Department memo that read, ‘The family is not going to go away.’ ”

A piece by Jasper Nathaniel. buff.ly/MoPvNWG

1 2

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 2d

“My sexuality and, frankly, my gender are just as mysterious to me as they have ever been.” —Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson, The Art of Nonfiction No. 13

“Any time someone has suggested that the kind of book I was describing couldn’t or shouldn’t be pulled off, it’s made me think, I’ll show you.”

buff.ly

1 3

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 2d

“In the early stories, my mother is pretty, sometimes clueless, and always delighted by life’s twists and turns. By the end of my father’s writing career, the fictional wife is cold, sarcastic, and bitchy.”

Susan Cheever on her father, John. buff.ly/S53IoK0

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 2d

Sign up for our Announcements newsletter and we’ll let you know about upcoming issues, launch parties, readings, and more.
buff.ly/l3BaFOP

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 2d

“Since turning sixty, I’ve thought about death every single day.”

An essay by Yan Lianke, translated by Jeremy Tiang. buff.ly/xDOtWTX

1 3

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 2d

“The baseball game last night was truly a metaphor for the human condition.”

This week, we’ve unlocked “Sportsman’s Paradise” by Nancy Lemann from the archive.

Sportsman’s Paradise by Nancy Lemann

The guests are arriving, across the lawn. It is Friday afternoon. The men are coming in on the late train in the parlor car, and others have come on the ferryboat

buff.ly

1 2

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 2d

“Did she know he was also gay? In his long campaign to tell a fictional story about his love of women—a campaign that took as much energy as anything he wrote for The New Yorker—my mother was my father’s most important audience.”

Susan Cheever on her father, John. buff.ly/S53IoK0

1 3

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 2d

“When an author is blocked from publication in his own country yet cannot live anywhere else, he finds himself being both debated and yelled at, attacked and beloved, forgotten but always remembered again, like a hedgehog.”

By Yan Lianke, translated by @jeremytiang.bsky.social.

Notes from a Hedgehog by Yan Lianke

October 7, 2025 – “Since turning sixty, I’ve thought about death every single day.”

buff.ly

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 2d

“I made it to the subway today and I decided I’d skip school and go right on down to Times Sq. and wander around a little. I got off at 42nd and then hung out with the junkies in Horn & Hardarts.”

We’ve unlocked “The Basketball Diaries” by Jim Carroll. buff.ly/sX5cWY7

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 3d

“I would sometimes get five rejection letters in my mailbox at once. The main thing editors would write was that the characters were too hapless, and it was all too depressing.” —Mary Gaitskill

Mary Gaitskill, The Art of Fiction No. 257

“I think that if humans are still walking around in fifty years, and still reading fiction, my work will last that long. Beyond that, I don’t know.”

buff.ly

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 3d

“It’s hard to remember sometimes just how exciting language combinations were to me when I was younger. It was simple delight, an intensification of interest, a quickening.” —Maggie Nelson

buff.ly

The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 3d

The Paris Review and the Bard Prison Initiative are pleased to invite distinguished writers to apply for the Paris Review Visiting Professorship of Literature for 2026. buff.ly/CGRJcIC