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Every week, the editors of <\/em>The Paris Review\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked\u00a0pieces delivered straight to your inbox every\u00a0Sunday by signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

This week, we bring you our interview with our newest Nobel Laureate, Kazuo Ishiguro<\/a>, plus work by his fellow laureates Svetlana Alexievich<\/a> and Alice Munro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Kazuo Ishiguro, The Art of Fiction No. 196<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Issue no. 184 (Spring 2008)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIdealistic people often become misanthropic when they are let down two or three times. Plato suggests it can be like that with the search for meaning of the good. You shouldn\u2019t get disillusioned when you get knocked back. All you\u2019ve discovered is that the search is difficult, and you still have a duty to keep on searching.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cVoices from Chernobyl,\u201d by\u00a0Svetlana Alexievich<\/strong><\/a>
\nIssue no.\u00a0172 (Winter 2004)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOn April 26, 1986, at 1:23:58 A.M.<\/small><\/span><\/span>, a series of explosions destroyed the reactor in the building that housed Energy Block #4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station. The catastrophe at Chernobyl became the largest technical disaster of the twentieth century.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCircle of Prayer,\u201d by Alice Munro<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong>Issue no. 100 (Summer\u2013Fall 1986)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cTrudy threw a jug across the room. It didn\u2019t reach the opposite wall, it didn\u2019t hurt anybody, it didn\u2019t even break.\u201d<\/p>\n

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