December 6, 2016 Bulletin Now Online: Our Interviews with Dag Solstad, Jay McInerney By The Paris Review The interviews from our Summer issue are now online in their entirety, freely available for subscribers and nonsubscribers alike. In the Art of Fiction No. 231, Jay McInerney discusses the circumstances that led to his first published short story—which appeared in The Paris Review: Read More
December 5, 2016 Bulletin Our Winter Issue: Rankine, Gray, Murray, and More By Dan Piepenbring The interviews in our new Winter issue feature three writers who have defied received wisdom—writers who have expanded art’s role in the national conversation. The first is one of the most politically engaged poets of our time; the second is a novelist whose experimental forms have made him a hero in his native Scotland, though he remains underread in the U.S.; and the third is with a critic who devoted his career to asserting and celebrating the centrality of the black experience to American culture. First, there’s Claudia Rankine on the art of poetry, finding the lyric in nontraditional spaces, and reaching as wide an American audience as possible: Read More
November 28, 2016 Bulletin New Paris Review Look, Same Great Paris Review Taste! By Dan Piepenbring Do not adjust your sets: theparisreview.org has been fully redesigned and beautified. If you fear change, you’ll be horrified to learn that this new site is more than just a cosmetic improvement: it also marks the debut of our complete digital archive, making available each and every piece from The Paris Review’s sixty-three-year history. Subscribe now and you can start reading 0ur back issues right away; you can also try a free ten-day trial period. Now you can read every short story and poem, every portfolio, every hastily doodled authorial self-portrait, and every introductory notice from the unassailable George Plimpton, who used to use the front of the magazine to brag about its ever-longer masthead. (“It is extremely difficult to extricate oneself—rather like being stuck in a bramble bush.”) As always, our full Writers at Work interview series, which dates back to 1953, is freely available. This week, watch this space to get a sample of some of our favorite writing from the magazine’s past. We’ll start today with “The Paris Review Sketchbook,” an illuminating history of the magazine by George Plimpton and Norman Mailer from our seventy-ninth issue, published in 1981: Read More
November 25, 2016 Bulletin Save 30 Percent on Our Favorite Classics By The Paris Review For the holidays, we’re offering 30 percent off the subscription to our monthly book club with New York Review Books, the imprint known for “rescuing and reviving all kinds of ignored or forgotten works … by writers renowned and obscure” (the New York Times). Sign up and you’ll get a one-year subscription to The Paris Review plus one new book from NYRB Classics every month. That’s four issues of the best new fiction, poetry, and interviews, plus twelve books, bringing you the best new and rediscovered classics: a $260 value, for just $140. It makes a great gift, yes—but take it from us, these are books you’ll want to read yourself, too. Subscribe now and give yourself a year of great reading.
November 3, 2016 Bulletin Richard Howard Will Receive Our 2017 Hadada Award By The Paris Review Save the date: The Paris Review’s annual gala, the Spring Revel, will be Tuesday, April 4, 2017, at Cipriani 42nd Street. We’ll honor Richard Howard with our Hadada Award. Read More
November 1, 2016 Bulletin Early Voters’ Special By The Paris Review Get your election-free content here. More than twenty-two million people have already voted. Maybe you’re one of them: you’re cooling your heels, killing time till November 8, refreshing Twitter, and generally freaking out. If your “information diet” has got you down, our Fall issue is here for you. It’s full of the best new fiction, poetry, interviews, and art—and it contains precisely zero instances of the word election. That’s our guarantee. Subscribe now and enjoy a respite from the twenty-four-hour news cycle.