Letters & Essays
Creating The Paris Review
Editor's Note
Lorin Stein, from 2010
In its first five years, the Review ran work by Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, Adrienne Rich, Italo Calvino, Samuel Beckett, Nadine Gordimer, Jean Genet, and Robert Bly. Let the critics say what they liked (what serious critic could stomach Kerouac and Naipaul?), the writing was alive. The Review never espoused a school. The editors were against schools on principle. They didn’t do themes, either, or special issues. Their job, as they saw it, was to find and publish, not things they considered competent, or merely worthy, but things they actually loved ...
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Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl Full Text
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Henry Allen, Terry Southern: An Appreciation
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Giacomo Antonini, A Review of Italian Writing
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Don Asher, The Barrier
James Atlas, W.G. Sebald: A Profile
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Helen Barolini, Neruda vs. Sartre at the Sea
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Charles Baxter, Fragments of Letters and Journals: 1998
Elizabeth Bishop, Correspondence
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James Blake, The Happy Islanders
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Dan Bright, The Prisoner
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Anthony Burgess, from You've Had Your Time
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Olga Carlisle et al., Russian Portraits
Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries
Maryann Carver et al., Glimpses: Raymond Carver
Blaise Cendrars, Manolo Secca
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John Cheever, On the Literary Life
C. Chesnaie, The Year in French Literature
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June 1 More than four inches of rain fell in May—very unusual. This season has felt more like a paid vacation than work. So far. I was taking a nap in the tower this afternoon when a group of ...
Bernard Cooper, Labyrinthine
Bernard Cooper, The Fine Art of Sighing
Alfred Corn et al., Reflections on a Worksheet
Malcolm Cowley, From The Editor's Desk
Thomas Quinn Curtiss, The Paris Theatre
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