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Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.
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Our Winter issue is here—featuring interviews with Hélène Cixous and Alice Oswald, prose by Eve Babitz and Gwendoline Riley, poetry by Jana Prikryl and Ed Roberson, art by Joan Jonas and Mieko Meguro, a cover by Adebunmi Gbadebo, and more: ssl.drgnetwork.com/flex/TPR/254/
“They are like women because you can sleep
near them, with them, in your truck,
close to Tank 10 when you are hungover.”
From “Good Tank Farms” by Millicent Borges Accardi in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/IE97CZr
near them, with them, in your truck,
close to Tank 10 when you are hungover.”
From “Good Tank Farms” by Millicent Borges Accardi in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/IE97CZr
December 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“They are like women because you can sleep
near them, with them, in your truck,
close to Tank 10 when you are hungover.”
From “Good Tank Farms” by Millicent Borges Accardi in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/IE97CZr
near them, with them, in your truck,
close to Tank 10 when you are hungover.”
From “Good Tank Farms” by Millicent Borges Accardi in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/IE97CZr
“Last night I had a good party. It is the only good party I ever gave. I took acid during dinner and was wonderful.”
From an excerpt of Eve Babitz’s journals in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/B9OTKrO
From an excerpt of Eve Babitz’s journals in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/B9OTKrO
December 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
“Last night I had a good party. It is the only good party I ever gave. I took acid during dinner and was wonderful.”
From an excerpt of Eve Babitz’s journals in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/B9OTKrO
From an excerpt of Eve Babitz’s journals in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/B9OTKrO
“And then Lala pulled something from her jacket and pressed it to the skin above Sleepy’s newly formed Adam’s apple. It glinted in the disco ball’s light. Sleepy let Waldy go.”
From “Lala and Waldy” by Elias Rodriques in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/2GRWJTG
From “Lala and Waldy” by Elias Rodriques in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/2GRWJTG
December 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“And then Lala pulled something from her jacket and pressed it to the skin above Sleepy’s newly formed Adam’s apple. It glinted in the disco ball’s light. Sleepy let Waldy go.”
From “Lala and Waldy” by Elias Rodriques in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/2GRWJTG
From “Lala and Waldy” by Elias Rodriques in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/2GRWJTG
“Maya was right, he should feel ashamed—not of his hopes and fantasies, but of the self he had developed to deal with their ruinous state.”
From “The Junior Realtor” by Alec Niedenthal in our new Winter issue.
From “The Junior Realtor” by Alec Niedenthal in our new Winter issue.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“Maya was right, he should feel ashamed—not of his hopes and fantasies, but of the self he had developed to deal with their ruinous state.”
From “The Junior Realtor” by Alec Niedenthal in our new Winter issue.
From “The Junior Realtor” by Alec Niedenthal in our new Winter issue.
“I started this because I read Virginia Woolf ’s diary and, undaunted, decided, what the hell?”
From an excerpt of Eve Babitz’s journals in our new Winter issue.
From an excerpt of Eve Babitz’s journals in our new Winter issue.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“I started this because I read Virginia Woolf ’s diary and, undaunted, decided, what the hell?”
From an excerpt of Eve Babitz’s journals in our new Winter issue.
From an excerpt of Eve Babitz’s journals in our new Winter issue.
“As much as you can get serious and grief-stricken about what it’s like to be human, there’s something very light about how words just flip over and rhyme, and then kick you in the face.”
From our Art of Poetry interview with Alice Oswald. buff.ly/QNsju7Z
From our Art of Poetry interview with Alice Oswald. buff.ly/QNsju7Z
December 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“As much as you can get serious and grief-stricken about what it’s like to be human, there’s something very light about how words just flip over and rhyme, and then kick you in the face.”
From our Art of Poetry interview with Alice Oswald. buff.ly/QNsju7Z
From our Art of Poetry interview with Alice Oswald. buff.ly/QNsju7Z
“I’ve always told people that all they have to do is read. But that’s the hardest thing to do.”
From our Art of Criticism interview with Hélène Cixous in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/zshigS4
From our Art of Criticism interview with Hélène Cixous in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/zshigS4
December 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
“I’ve always told people that all they have to do is read. But that’s the hardest thing to do.”
From our Art of Criticism interview with Hélène Cixous in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/zshigS4
From our Art of Criticism interview with Hélène Cixous in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/zshigS4
Our Winter issue is here—featuring interviews with Hélène Cixous and Alice Oswald, prose by Eve Babitz and Gwendoline Riley, poetry by Jana Prikryl and Ed Roberson, art by Joan Jonas and Mieko Meguro, a cover by Adebunmi Gbadebo, and more: ssl.drgnetwork.com/flex/TPR/254/
December 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Our Winter issue is here—featuring interviews with Hélène Cixous and Alice Oswald, prose by Eve Babitz and Gwendoline Riley, poetry by Jana Prikryl and Ed Roberson, art by Joan Jonas and Mieko Meguro, a cover by Adebunmi Gbadebo, and more: ssl.drgnetwork.com/flex/TPR/254/
“I got my courage for the way I write stories from first writing poems.” —Grace Paley
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December 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“I got my courage for the way I write stories from first writing poems.” —Grace Paley
“I quite dislike method—or distrust it, let’s say.” —Fredric Jameson
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December 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“I quite dislike method—or distrust it, let’s say.” —Fredric Jameson
“The citizen and the novelist in me are always at war, and that can be enormously productive, as long as neither of them wins.” —Javier Cercas
Javier Cercas, The Art of Fiction No. 264
“Literature is pleasure and knowledge, like sex. It’s useful only so long as one doesn’t set out to make it useful.”
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December 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
“The citizen and the novelist in me are always at war, and that can be enormously productive, as long as neither of them wins.” —Javier Cercas
“My family had a membership with the Book of the Month Club, and I remember looking at this wonderful two-volume Moncrieff edition of Proust and thinking, How neurotic!” —Fredric Jameson
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December 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“My family had a membership with the Book of the Month Club, and I remember looking at this wonderful two-volume Moncrieff edition of Proust and thinking, How neurotic!” —Fredric Jameson
Back by popular demand: our classic Paris Review ringer, now in vintage white with black ribbing. buff.ly/R9fQJOP
December 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Back by popular demand: our classic Paris Review ringer, now in vintage white with black ribbing. buff.ly/R9fQJOP
Each week, we unlocked from our archive stories, poems, and interviews for our readers.
Sign up for the Redux newsletter to receive these pieces—by writers like Toni Morrison, Joan Didion, and Kazuo Ishiguro—to your inbox every Sunday morning. buff.ly/aZU3Cqs
Sign up for the Redux newsletter to receive these pieces—by writers like Toni Morrison, Joan Didion, and Kazuo Ishiguro—to your inbox every Sunday morning. buff.ly/aZU3Cqs
December 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Each week, we unlocked from our archive stories, poems, and interviews for our readers.
Sign up for the Redux newsletter to receive these pieces—by writers like Toni Morrison, Joan Didion, and Kazuo Ishiguro—to your inbox every Sunday morning. buff.ly/aZU3Cqs
Sign up for the Redux newsletter to receive these pieces—by writers like Toni Morrison, Joan Didion, and Kazuo Ishiguro—to your inbox every Sunday morning. buff.ly/aZU3Cqs
“If a poet is really good he can give you a moment of reconcilement to the tragic nature of things.” —John Hall Wheelock
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December 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“If a poet is really good he can give you a moment of reconcilement to the tragic nature of things.” —John Hall Wheelock
“I have always thought that life and literature are intermingled and that this intermingling has been my quest.” —V. S. Pritchett
V. S. Pritchett, The Art of Fiction No. 122
“I was having tea with [Yeats] one day, and I remember he picked up a pot of tea and, finding that it was already full of old tea, he opened the window of his Georgian house and flung the contents into...
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December 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“I have always thought that life and literature are intermingled and that this intermingling has been my quest.” —V. S. Pritchett
“I think you can say that all the isms of the various forms of racism—anti-Semitism, anti-Islamism, and so on—stem from a resentment on account of an envy, the envy that comes from not having belief in as strong a form.” —Fredric Jameson
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December 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“I think you can say that all the isms of the various forms of racism—anti-Semitism, anti-Islamism, and so on—stem from a resentment on account of an envy, the envy that comes from not having belief in as strong a form.” —Fredric Jameson
The Paris Review has published poetry since its founding in 1953, and launched the Art of Poetry in 1959 with an interview with T. S. Eliot. In 2025, the Poetry Cap makes its debut! buff.ly/zQNzFaK
December 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The Paris Review has published poetry since its founding in 1953, and launched the Art of Poetry in 1959 with an interview with T. S. Eliot. In 2025, the Poetry Cap makes its debut! buff.ly/zQNzFaK
“Even a musician with the most modest career in some local bar is to me more glamorous than the most glamorous writer.” —Mary Gaitskill buff.ly/gMBv38C
December 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“Even a musician with the most modest career in some local bar is to me more glamorous than the most glamorous writer.” —Mary Gaitskill buff.ly/gMBv38C
Excerpts from Olga Tokarczuk, Peter Handke, Christian Schlegel, and Tarpley Hitt.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Excerpts from Olga Tokarczuk, Peter Handke, Christian Schlegel, and Tarpley Hitt.
“As a writer you have to be willing to say, Yeah, that’s not good enough, over and over and over again.” —Maggie Nelson
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December 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“As a writer you have to be willing to say, Yeah, that’s not good enough, over and over and over again.” —Maggie Nelson
“You speak from inside the poem as someone looking to see how the roof articulates with the walls and how the wall articulates with the floor. And where are the crossbeams that hold it up, and where are the windows that let light through?” —Helen Vendler
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December 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“You speak from inside the poem as someone looking to see how the roof articulates with the walls and how the wall articulates with the floor. And where are the crossbeams that hold it up, and where are the windows that let light through?” —Helen Vendler
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This limited-edition sweatshirt reproduces an oil pastel drawing from a forthcoming portfolio by the artist Joan Jonas, to appear in issue no. 254. buff.ly/3vwjn9k
December 4, 2025 at 10:02 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. buff.ly/3vwjn9k
“I think there is an increasing danger of novels becoming too streamlined, domesticated.” —Arundhati Roy
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December 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
“I think there is an increasing danger of novels becoming too streamlined, domesticated.” —Arundhati Roy
“Once, at a gay bar, John and I were leaning on a jukebox, and he said, ‘I’d rather stand here exchanging limp remarks with you than go out and pick somebody up.’” —James Schuyler
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December 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“Once, at a gay bar, John and I were leaning on a jukebox, and he said, ‘I’d rather stand here exchanging limp remarks with you than go out and pick somebody up.’” —James Schuyler