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I could be a statue or a pine tree.The love-canceling hours are gone.There is no ick factor.

September 7, 2012 – We all hate to see summer end, but don’t despair: we bring you our Fall issue by way of consolation! And there’s so much to love. James Fenton on

December 10, 2015 – Fact: nearly every one of the 214 back issues in our archive, going all the back to 1953, is available for purchase—and they make great last-minute gifts.

After 14 years as an award-winning art director at Faber & Faber, Charlotte Strick is now a partner in boutique design studio Strick&Williams and art editor of The Paris Review. She also writes about art and design for the likes of The Atlantic and The Huffington Post. We speak to Charlotte at her home and workspace in Brooklyn, NY as The Paris Review’s spring/summer issue is published. Where are you today? Williamsburg, Brooklyn—where I live and work. What can you see from the window?...

September 12, 2023 – “Of course, nothing complicates a love of books like the attempt to build a life around them.”

Paris Review Issue 1, Spring 1953

Paris Review Issue 2, Summer 1953

“People who didn’t live pre-Internet can’t grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I’ll never see it again.”

Behold Octavia Butler's Motivational Notes to Self | Open Culture

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We’re totally loving this fall’s cover of The Paris Review, and the newest cool design got us to thinking about some of our favorites from years past. The literary quarterly, founded in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton,…

Excerpt from The Paris Review interview with James Baldwin, The Art of Fiction No. 78 | Instagram

The distinguished literary journal, thrown sideways by #MeToo, wants a new leader for a new era.

The Paris Review Issue 6, Summer 1954

December 8, 2021 – Writing that makes us feel that we are in proximity to another consciousness.

from “Joan Didion, The Art of Fiction No. 71,” interviewed by Linda Kuehl, Paris Review (no. 74, Fall-Winter 1978)

“Every novel is—at the beginning—the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.”

For The Paris Review’s 2019 Spring Revel benefit invitation design, Topos Graphics conveyed a broad range of book design with 18 carefully-selected bookish typefaces. Topos provided this explanation by email: We designed a book shelf environment for text elements to be placed

October 10, 2011 – Johanna Fateman began her 1997 fanzine, Artaud-Mania, by professing, “Dear Diary, I am writing to you because confessional writing is the self-effacing