Ralph Ellison
[African-American folklore] is like jazz; there's no inherent problem which prohibits understanding but the assumptions brought to it. Read more»
5/17 & 5/18 See Paris Revieweditors at the Philadelphia Book Festival.
5/19The Paris Review comes to the Westport Arts Center.
5/22 Philip Gourevitch reads at Politics and Prose.
5/31 Tim Winton begins a West Coast reading tour.
Spring books from The Paris Review.
A Paris Review historical mystery.
The Spring 2008 Revel honored Peter Matthiessen and Jesse Ball. Click here to see photos from the event.
Site redesign: see examples of the old site here and here.
The Paris Review is looking for new writers. Click here to check out our submission guidelines.
Mark Dow on Jerusalem, the Brooklyn Public Library, and beets.
Plus Tim Winton on surfing (I couldn't take my eyes from those plumes of spray, the churning shards of light) and a photo sketch-book of an airship in flight over the rainforest by Lena Herzog and Graham Dorrington.
Read the three stories from The Paris Review that were nominated for a 2008 National Magazine Award in fiction.
When I picture my father I see the surface of the moon,
plains of moon-stuff chalk-dust papers shredded
by a paper shredder, snowbanks of shredded paper,
nobody to organize it all, no way to moralize the day
out of its aimlessness, nobody with a Shop-Vac handy
slowly to turn the whiteness into pattern and form,
revealing, as a chisel reveals in the marble,
a figure, a womans figure, an expression of bliss—