The cowboys bowed their heads—some wept—as the announcer beseeched God to keep them safe. John Crimber, the nineteen-year-old ...

Edward Gorey (1925–2000) was born in Chicago. He studied briefly at the Art Institute of Chicago, spent three years in the ...

GERALD MURNANE WITH HIS WIFE, CATHERINE, IN BENDIGO, 1989.

Extracts from new books by Antonio diBenedetto, Peter Szendy, Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel, Saidiya Hartman, and Lyndsy ...

I want to live a beautiful life but I can’t help but notice there is something fundamentally disgusting about it all.” ...

In Stockholm it didn’t snow on Christmas or New Year’s Eve or at the beginning of January. The days were gray and, in the afternoon, just before it got completely dark, there was often a dank glow ...

Fumio Yamamoto worked at a brokerage firm before beginning to write in the late eighties. She became a best-selling author and received numerous accolades, including the Naoki Prize. The novella ...

The Paris Review is not only the preeminent literary quarterly in America but also a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Donations help us pay the writers and artists whose work fills our pages, as well ...

When Warhol agreed to do a poster for The Paris Review in 1965 he wanted an artifact associated with the magazine that he could reproduce and stamp with his signature. The editors suggested a subpoena ...

“I think that when one is dead one should be a little bit bolder, so that the rest of us may have some record of how things actually were.” ...

“The whole question of free will and choice and determinism is inevitably interesting to a novelist. Are your characters puppets in the hands of fate or are they really able to make free choices?” ...