He placed the flower on his nose, splayed out his arms, and began walking from side to side. ‘The wire is never still, but ...
Anne Serre’s “That Summer,” which appears in the new Summer issue of The Paris Review, opens with an anticlimactic claim: ...
I do not think we can pick up a book we love without feeling our heart racing, or truly know a creature or thing without being reborn in them and with them.” ...
My thoughts have been very much with you as more and more reports come in about the earthquake in southern Italy. Of course, ...
Recently, I found myself at the Tate Modern in London, accompanied by my youngest daughter, to see Music of the Mind, a retrospective of the work of Yoko Ono: her drawings, postcards, films, and ...
Javier Cercas rose to literary stardom in Spain with Soldiers of Salamis (2001, translation 2003), a novel about a forgotten incident in the Spanish Civil War. The book is narrated by a struggling ...
For millions of people in the Americas, our Indigenous heritage is something tinged with mystery. We look into a mirror and believe we see the Mayan, the Aztec, or the Apache in our faces. The hint of ...
On the fourth day, my housemate’s ex left radishes and kale on our stoop. They shouted up at our second-floor porch until my housemate came out. They told her she could have the garden plot they’d ...
I first heard Rosmarie Waldrop read when I was seventeen, visiting my elder brother at Brown. She was reading from what would become Reluctant Gravities (1999), the third book in the trilogy of prose ...
The Paris Review Podcast returns with a new season, featuring the best interviews, fiction, essays, and poetry from America’s most legendary literary quarterly, brought to life in sound. Join us for ...
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