The Paris ReviewExtreme Sports Staff Picks: Corner Booths, Skate Shoots, and Ghosts The Paris ReviewKate Zambreno’s To Write As If Already Dead just might be the first truly great book about the coronavirus pandemic. Ostensibly a study of the French writer and photographer Hervé Guibert, who died of...
The Paris ReviewPie Cooking with C. L. R. James The Paris Review - Valerie StiversThe introduction to Mariners, Castaways and Renegades, a 1953 work on Herman Melville by the activist, critic, and novelist C. L. R. James (1901–1989), is electrifying to the Melville lover. It starts...
The Paris ReviewLotteries A Jackpot in the Archive The Paris Review - Christopher NotarnicolaOne cannot talk about the lottery in a literary context without a tip of the hat to Shirley Jackson’s infamously dystopian story, which received an “incredibly misleading” pulp cover treatment back in...
The Paris ReviewLiterature Eibhlín Dubh’s Rage and Anguish and Love The Paris Review - Doireann Ní GhríofaWhen we first met, I was a child, and she had been dead for centuries. Look: I am eleven, a girl who is terrible at sums and at sports, a girl given to staring out windows, a girl whose only real gift...
The Paris ReviewLiterature Redux: Mother for Whom the Whole Sky 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 ReviewBooks Chronology of a Body The Paris Review - Kate ZambrenoIt was the fall three years ago, massively pregnant, bouncing on an exercise ball to try to stimulate contractions, trying to not stroke out while watching the presidential debates, the one where he loomed...
The Paris ReviewEric Carle Anatomy of a Hoax The Paris Review - Dan PiepenbringEric Carle, the author and illustrator of more than seventy books that captivated, amused, and educated generations of children, died last month at ninety-one. Carle’s work, and his seemingly effortless...
The Paris ReviewMichael Jordan On Sneakers The Paris Review - Hanif AbdurraqibIn his column Notes on Hoops, Hanif Abdurraqib revisits the golden age of basketball movies, shot by shot. 1. It is best to not get this confused: there are many ways to grow up poor. There are differences...
The Paris ReviewGender Staff Picks: Exes, Hexes, and Excellence The Paris ReviewPart sci-fi, part fantasy, part trans Brooklynite millennial saga, Future Feeling revels in its own chaos. Joss Lake’s debut novel kicks off when Pen, a trans man who works as a dog walker, enlists his...
The Paris ReviewPoetry Poets on Couches: John Murillo and Nicole Sealey Read Anne Waldman The Paris Review - John Murillo & Nicole SealeyThe second series of Poets on Couches continues with John Murillo and Nicole Sealey reading Anne Waldman’s poem “How to Write.” In these videograms, poets read and discuss the poems getting them through...
The Paris ReviewBooks The Secret Identity of Janis Jerome The Paris Review - Michelle OrangeDuring one of the texting sessions that became our habit over the period I now think of as both late and early in our relationship, my mother revealed the existence of someone named Janis Jerome. The of...
The Paris ReviewBooks History Is the Throbbing Pulse: An Interview with Doireann Ní Ghríofa The Paris Review - Rhian SasseenIn the work of the Irish writer Doireann Ní Ghríofa, history is amorphous, a living thing that frequently bleeds into or interrupts the lives of those in the present day. “The past has come apart / events...
