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Lit Crawl: Sneak Peek of Issue 194
This Saturday, The Paris Review unveiled its fall issue at Fontana's. Photographs by Wesley Chen.
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Pressing Flesh with Sam Lipsyte
From his first collection of stories, Venus Drive, to his most recent novel, The Ask, Sam Lipsyte has consistently penned the best comedic literature of the past decade. In the fall issue, he has...
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Hempelian Moods; My Friend’s Fancy Book Deal
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel has converted me back to reading short stories. Where would you go next after Hempel? Isn’t she good! If you want to expand on that Hempelian mood of yours, I...
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Gary Lutz on ‘Divorcer’
Gary Lutz is a wholly original writer of the short story. The first thing one notices are his startling sentences, like this one from the title story of his new collection, Divorcer: “It was in a...
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Post-Breakup Fiction; Comma Stutterers
I recently got out of serious relationship. Since then I have not been able to read, though I usually love sad, sappy love stories. Can you recommend some books that have zero romance or love in them?...
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Transitory Lifestyles; Comic Novels
Because of my school’s academic structure, I pack up my possessions and move every two to three months, ricocheting between school, home, and New York. In fact, I’m leaving the city this weekend. This...
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Introducing Our Summer Issue!
Unlike some magazines, we don’t do “theme” issues. And yet, as we collected the material that makes up 201, we couldn’t help notice that the issue had a decidedly ... dramatic bent. Not just...
View ArticleWatch: Issue 201 in Action!
To celebrate the release of The Paris Review’s Summer issue, we put together a little video that takes you inside the pages of 201. In case you’ve forgotten, the issue features Tony Kushner and Wallace...
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Defiance: A Literary Benefit to Rebuild Red Hook
Last week, the waterfront neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn, was one of the areas shattered by superstorm Sandy. On Wednesday, November 14, join host Kurt Andersen; musicians Steve Earle and Stew;...
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Introducing Our Sixtieth-Anniversary Issue!
If you happened to be in Paris this past month, and walked past the public toilets at the corner of rue Alexandre Dumas and boulevard de Charonne, you may have noticed a giant picture of George...
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Happy World Book Day, and Other News
Happy World Book Day, the biggest book show on earth. May we suggest a sinister book cake? In its honor: dream ballets and operas, based on books. (Fear and Loathing: the opera, anyone? Why not?) Sam...
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The Fun Part
“You can’t help it,” she said. “It’s a genetic thing. You weren’t allowed to own land in the Middle Ages.” We were excited to see Sam Lipsyte on The Henry Review—and even more so when we realized that...
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Proust, Lost in Translation
The first volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way was published almost exactly a hundred years ago. Its opening lines make one thing inescapably apparent: Proust’s style is...
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Staff Picks: Staircases, Sister Mountains, Self-Help
A still from The Staircase. In The Program Era, Mark McGurl illuminated postwar American fiction’s inextricable ties to universities and creative-writing programs; his new paper, “The Institution of...
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This Tuesday: Paul Beatty and Lorin Stein in Conversation
New Yorkers: join us tomorrow at McNally Jackson, where our editor Lorin Stein will appear in conversation with Paul Beatty. Paul’s new novel, The Sellout, is out now; the Guardian calls it “a...
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Tarnishing the Golden Ratio, and Other News
Igor Kochmala distorts celebrity faces with the golden ratio. Photo via WiredTwo centuries ago, book critics were a reliably truculent bunch, their knives always sharpened, their authority...
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Do Not Drop These Books, and Other News
Books of laminate glass by Ramon Todo. Image via This Is ColossalIn which Justin Taylor dissects a paragraph of Sam Lipsyte’s story “This Appointment Occurs in the Past,” in the name of pedagogy: “The...
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Debating Dracula’s Roots, and Other News
Photo: Greg WillisBreaking news: Bram Stoker’s great-grand-nephew has rejected a scholar’s recent claim that Dracula hailed not from Transylvania but from Exeter. “People will be surprised and...
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Fun in Hell, and Other News
From the cover of Maigret Hesitates, by George Simenon.It is possible that Radiohead was inspired by William Blake in the writing of OK Computer. It is probable that Thom Yorke donated a copy of Songs...
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The Subtractionist
Our complete digital archive is available now. Subscribers can read every piece—every story and poem, every essay, portfolio, and interview—from The Paris Review’s sixty-three-year history....
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