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It’s very rare that an acclaimed literary magazine goes through as many style revolutions as The Paris Review has. The masthead has shape shifted from serif to sans and back again; its size has gone from pamphlet, to book, to magazine, to somewhere in-between. And alongside timeless contributions fr

So obsessed am I with feelingThat I sometimes lose my way when I step freeFrom all the sensations I receive.

The Paris Review, Winter 1981.

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

Cover Design by Emilio Theler The Paris Review (1968)

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

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

Paris Review Issue 1, Spring 1953

Paris Review Issue 2, Summer 1953

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In the comparatively safe, sleek, and expensive New York City of today, nostalgia for the crime-ridden, scummy, and cheap New York City of the 1970s is as strong as ever.

💬 0 🔁 1137 ❤️ 2139 · from “Joan Didion, The Art of Fiction No. 71,” interviewed by Linda Kuehl, Paris Review (no. 74, Fall-Winter 1978)

Cover Design by Sarkis The Paris Review (1968)

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.

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“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.”

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

June 8, 2021 – In an excerpt from her new book ‘To Write As If Already Dead,’ Kate Zambreno considers the diaristic fictions of Hervé Guibert.