The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.

Jan 3, 2025 · Extracts from new books by Antonio diBenedetto, Peter Szendy, Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel, Saidiya Hartman, and Lyndsy Spence.

Teaching at Duke, 1988. Courtesy of Duke University. 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 …

Dec 18, 2019 · Larissa Pham’s column, Devil in the Details, takes a tight lens on single elements of a work, tracing them throughout art history. It paid $12.50 an hour with clothes on, $25 with clothes off. The choice, I figured, was obvious. My friend Gabriel had turned me on to the gig in college. We were always on the lookout for work that required minimal effort for maximal reward. And the job was ...

nd visual art. The Review’s renowned Writers at Work series of interviews is one of the great landmarks of world literature. Hailed by the New York Times as “the most remarkable interviewing project we possess,” the series received a George Polk Award and has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. With the December 2016 redesign of the …

Sep 11, 2015 · From The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong, a new book by David Orr. A young man hiking through a forest is abruptly confronted with a fork in the path. He pauses, his hands in his pockets, and looks back and forth between his options. As he hesitates, images from possible futures flicker past: the young man wading into the ocean ...

Mar 25, 2024 · The Paris Review ’s Writers at Work interview series has been a hallmark of the magazine since its founding in 1953. These interviews, often conducted over months and sometimes even years, aim to provide insight into how each subject came to be the writer they are, and how the work gets done, and can serve as a kind of defining moment—crystallizing a version of the writer’s legacy in ...

Apr 22, 2015 · Andrew Scull, author of “Madness in Civilization,” a new cultural history of madness, examines more than a dozen depictions of insanity.

James Baldwin in Hyde Park, London. Photograph by Allan Warren, The Paris Review No. 129. This interview was conducted in the two places dearest to James Baldwin’s struggle as a writer. We met first in Paris, where he spent the first nine years of a burgeoning career and wrote his first two novels, Go Tell It on the Mountain and Giovanni’s Room, …

Feb 5, 2016 · With all the controversy surrounding the renaming of problematic buildings, it seems fitting to draw attention to another bit of suspicious rebranding. Perhaps you’ve seen the BBC miniseries previewed above. “Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None,” is, of course, Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians—which was originally, notoriously, released serially in the UK under the title ...