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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/
“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.
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Each week, we unlocked from our archive stories, poems, and interviews for our readers.
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“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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“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
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
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 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
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
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December 3, 2025 at 9:02 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
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“People would ask me, ‘What do you do about reviews?’ I would say, ‘Well, my response is first I throw up, then I cry, then I go to sleep, and then I wake up. It’s a four-step program.’” —Sharon Olds buff.ly/zc4W0VO
December 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
“People would ask me, ‘What do you do about reviews?’ I would say, ‘Well, my response is first I throw up, then I cry, then I go to sleep, and then I wake up. It’s a four-step program.’” —Sharon Olds buff.ly/zc4W0VO
Excerpts from Olga Tokarczuk, Peter Handke, Christian Schlegel, and Tarpley Hitt.
The Eyelashes of the Twentieth Century by Sophie Haigney and Olivia Kan-Sperling
December 2, 2025 – New books by Joe Brainard, Peter Handke, Tarpley Hitt, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Christian Schlegel, and Olga Tokarczuk.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Excerpts from Olga Tokarczuk, Peter Handke, Christian Schlegel, and Tarpley Hitt.
“In the Dark Room, it was as if we were hosting friends, family, neighbors—look who we have here to celebrate! It was basically in someone’s living room.” —John Keene
John Keene, The Art of Fiction No. 259
“When I was a child, everything used to come to me first as a poem.”
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December 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“In the Dark Room, it was as if we were hosting friends, family, neighbors—look who we have here to celebrate! It was basically in someone’s living room.” —John Keene
“A couple of years ago, when the New York Times did a piece about Bridget not being a feminist. I thought, Really? It’s been twenty-five years.”
An interview with Helen Fielding. buff.ly/mZ6gh62
An interview with Helen Fielding. buff.ly/mZ6gh62
December 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“A couple of years ago, when the New York Times did a piece about Bridget not being a feminist. I thought, Really? It’s been twenty-five years.”
An interview with Helen Fielding. buff.ly/mZ6gh62
An interview with Helen Fielding. buff.ly/mZ6gh62
“I really, really hate writing that pulls its punches, stalls out in exposition that we don’t need.” —Maggie Nelson buff.ly/BjWYSaB
December 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“I really, really hate writing that pulls its punches, stalls out in exposition that we don’t need.” —Maggie Nelson buff.ly/BjWYSaB
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 2, 2025 at 10:01 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. buff.ly/3vwjn9k
“That's part of writing, having to find the right words. I believe in the right to try.” —Sharon Olds
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December 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
“That's part of writing, having to find the right words. I believe in the right to try.” —Sharon Olds
“You cannot screw that plot up. There have been so many adaptations, Pride and Prejudice this, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Mr. Darcy, Vampyre. As long as you stick to what she did, you can’t muck it up.”
An interview with Helen Fielding.
An interview with Helen Fielding.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“You cannot screw that plot up. There have been so many adaptations, Pride and Prejudice this, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Mr. Darcy, Vampyre. As long as you stick to what she did, you can’t muck it up.”
An interview with Helen Fielding.
An interview with Helen Fielding.