On the Daily
from “Cruel Loss of Sons”
By Egill Skallagrímsson“My family stands / at its end, stops / storm-thrashed / on a forest’s fringe”
From the Archive, Issue 250
Poetry
Donate to The Paris Review
By The Paris ReviewThe Paris Review promotes the most exciting writers of the day and supports inquisitive readers the world over.
Donate
Wild Animal Tales
By Ludmilla Petrushevskaya"The story of Edward the Leopard was a delicate, even ticklish, matter."
The Daily
Fiction
The Art of Criticism No. 6
By Margo Jefferson“A lot of things that fascinated me clearly had a lot to do with my navigating a simultaneously segregated and integrated world.”
In the Current Issue, Issue 251
Interviews
Advertisement
Style Is Joy: On Iris Apfel
By Dorothea Lasky"When I was a newborn baby, one of the first things she said to me was, 'We will have fun in this life—we will go shopping!'"
The Daily
First Person
La Comédie-Française
By Nora Fulton“I like it when I’m looking / At a woman’s wrists / I like it when a woman likes to look at my wrists”
In the Current Issue, Issue 251
Poetry
Three Stories
By Domenico Starnone“My colleague Alassio is the only person left at the school where I teach who believes that the working class is the engine of history.”
In the Current Issue, Issue 251
Fiction
My Aerodynamics
By Edward Salem“I fell like this for years, / in the fishy air. I stopped panicking. / I could think as I fell.”
