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Staff Picks: H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Apocalyptic Dry-humping
A still from Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y. The hysteria and mystery surrounding the Germanwings crash have led me back to Johan Grimonprez’s Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, a 1997 film collage that traces the history of...
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Trollope on the TV, and Other News
An illustration from Trollope’s Barchester Towers, which precedes Doctor Thorne in his Chronicles of Barsetshire series. Rachel Kushner, Francine Prose, Peter Carey, and at least three other prominent...
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6: “A Craving for Silence”
From “Kang” through “Music,” pp. 116–140 This is the sixth entry in our Mating Book Club. (Sorry for the wait!) Read along. This latest portion might be dubbed “The Critique of Pure Boredom,”...
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Magnet Hands, and Other News
Karl Wirsum, Magnet Hands, 1972, crayon and ink on chipboard, 84″ x 72″. In which Alex Mar gives neo-paganism a try and spends a weekend at a witches’ gathering, only to understand, through her...
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David Szalay Wins Plimpton Prize; Chris Bachelder Wins Terry Southern Prize
Every April, at our Spring Revel—you have your ticket, don’t you?—the board of The Paris Review awards two prizes for outstanding contributions to the magazine. It’s with great pleasure that we...
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Pictures from Our 2016 Spring Revel
Lydia Davis Our Spring Revel was this Tuesday, and we have the pictures to prove it. Hundreds convened at Cipriani 42nd Street to honor Lydia Davis with the Hadada Award. She received it from her high...
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The Norwegian-American Literary Festival Returns
Photo: Johannes W. Berg. For the last few years, The Paris Review has cohosted The Norwegian-American Literary Festival, gathering a small group of American and Norwegian writers and critics for a...
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Is That All There Is?: An Interview with Stephanie Danler
The first sentence of Stephanie Danler’s riveting debut novel is perhaps more an injunction than an imperative: “You will develop a palate.” Over the 355 pages of Sweetbitter, the narrator,...
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Duncan Hannah’s Seventies New York
Duncan Hannah in his studio and apartment in Brooklyn. Photo by David Coggins. In the last decade, a cottage industry has sprung up around wistful recollections of New York in the seventies, from...
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Redux: The Story of the Story
Every 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...
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