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Kevin Young on ‘Ardency’
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Introducing Our Sixtieth-Anniversary Issue!
If you happened to be in Paris this past month, and walked past the public toilets at the corner of rue Alexandre Dumas and boulevard de Charonne, you may have noticed a giant picture of George...
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Announcing The Unprofessionals: Our New Anthology
Click to enlarge This November, we’re publishing our first anthology of new writing in more than fifty years. The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from The Paris Review features thirty-one...
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Thomas Lux, 1946–2017
The poet Thomas Lux died this weekend at age seventy, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Lux, who taught for years at Georgia Tech, aspired to make his poems ring with “the right combination...
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Staff Picks: Phillips, February, and Fake News
A banner depicting Joice Heth, by the artist Mark Copeland. When a review copy of Kevin Young’s Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News landed on my desk, I...
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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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Staff Picks: Sharp Women and Humble Turtles
Michelle Dean. What I like most about Michelle Dean’s book Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion is its cumulative effect. It’s not a biography of one or two or even three brilliant...
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Poetry Rx: A Poem Not About Sex
In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Kaveh...
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Poetry Rx: I Loved My Friend
In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Claire...
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Kevin Young on ‘Ardency’
Photograph by Kate Tuttle. In Ardency, the poet Kevin Young chronicles the experiences of fifty-three Africans who mutinied aboard the Amistad slave ship in 1839. After killing two of their Spanish...
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Introducing Our Sixtieth-Anniversary Issue!
If you happened to be in Paris this past month, and walked past the public toilets at the corner of rue Alexandre Dumas and boulevard de Charonne, you may have noticed a giant picture of George...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Announcing The Unprofessionals: Our New Anthology
Click to enlarge This November, we’re publishing our first anthology of new writing in more than fifty years. The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from The Paris Review features thirty-one...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Thomas Lux, 1946–2017
The poet Thomas Lux died this weekend at age seventy, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Lux, who taught for years at Georgia Tech, aspired to make his poems ring with “the right combination...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Staff Picks: Phillips, February, and Fake News
A banner depicting Joice Heth, by the artist Mark Copeland. When a review copy of Kevin Young’s Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News landed on my desk, I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Staff Picks: Sharp Women and Humble Turtles
Michelle Dean. What I like most about Michelle Dean’s book Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion is its cumulative effect. It’s not a biography of one or two or even three brilliant...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Poetry Rx: A Poem Not About Sex
In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Kaveh...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Poetry Rx: I Loved My Friend
In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Claire...
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