The Review
The Paris Review No. 240

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on the Art of Fiction: “There’s a slipperiness to the Gĩkũyũ language. I’d write a sentence, read it the following morning, and find that it could mean something else.”
Sigrid Nunez on the Art of Fiction: “Sometimes you find yourself having to choose between your parents’ feelings and your need to write about them.”
Prose by Dan Bevacqua, Harriet Clark, Emma Cline, Leonard Cohen, Rachel B. Glaser, Robert Glück, Matthew Shen Goodman, Darryl Pinckney, and Esther Yi.
Poetry by Sandra Cisneros, Chard deNiord, Nate Duke, Elisa Gonzalez, Katrina Haddad, Terrance Hayes, Sylvia Legris, Gregory Pardlo, Arthur Sze, and Jeet Thayil.
Art by Otis Houston Jr. and Marc Hundley, and cover by Stanley Whitney.