The Paris ReviewJan Morris Remembering Jan Morris The Paris Review“To be writing about a place you’ve got to be utterly selfish,” said the legendary travel writer Jan Morris in her Art of the Essay interview. “You’ve only got to think about the place that you’re writing....
The Paris ReviewLibraries The Libraries of My Life The Paris Review - Jorge CarriónI was thirteen and wanted to work. Someone told me that you could get paid to referee basketball games and where to go to find out about such weekend employment. I needed income to bolster my collections...
The Paris ReviewPoetry Redux: A Dining Room Deserted The Paris ReviewEvery week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to...
The Paris ReviewLatin America Notes from the Bathysphere The Paris Review - Brad FoxI’m writing from the outskirts of the small town of Tarapoto, in northeastern Peru. My ostensibly short trip here last March intersected with the declaration of a state of emergency: complete shutdown...
The Paris ReviewCopper Verdigris: The Color of Oxidation, Statues and Impermanence The Paris Review - Katy KelleherIt’s hard to imagine now, but once people gathered together freely, shoulders rubbing against shoulders, breath exchanged between lungs, bodies open to one another—all this closeness, almost a million...
The Paris ReviewBooks The Feminine Pillar of Male Chauvinism The Paris Review - Lucy ScholesIn her column, Re-Covered, Lucy Scholes exhumes the out-of-print and forgotten books that shouldn’t be. If the Australian writer and critic Thelma Forshaw is remembered for anything today, it’s most likely...
