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Issue no. 237 of The Paris Review<\/em> is here for your summer reading! The Summer 2021 issue, online today, features interviews with Arundhati Roy<\/strong><\/a> and Roz Chast<\/strong><\/a>; fiction by Adania Shibli<\/strong><\/a> and five emerging writers; the first English translation of a monologue by Vladimir Nabokov<\/strong><\/a>; poetry by Kaveh<\/a> Akbar<\/a><\/strong>, George Bradley<\/strong><\/a>, and Ada Lim\u00f3n<\/strong><\/a>; an essay on tennis by Joy Katz<\/strong><\/a>; and art by Elizabeth Ibarra<\/strong><\/a> paired with an essay by Aimee Nezhukumatathil<\/strong><\/a>\u2014and, of course, much more!<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m grateful for the lessons one learns from great writers, but also from imperialists, sexists, friends, lovers, oppressors, revolutionaries\u2014everybody. Everybody has something to teach a writer,\u201d Arundhati Roy<\/strong><\/a> tells managing editor and interviewer Hasan Altaf<\/strong> in the Art of Fiction No. 249. Roy, the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction\u2014including the 1997 Booker-winning novel The God of Small Things<\/em>, 2017\u2019s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness<\/em>, and the 2019 essay collection My Seditious Heart<\/em>\u2014describes the singular pleasure of losing herself in novel writing, with detours along the way to discuss her architecture-school days in New Delhi and her time spent reporting in the forests of Bastar. \u201cI love immersing myself in the universe of a novel for years,\u201d she says. \u201cThere is never a time when I am more alive \u2026 Being in that universe, that imperfect universe, is like being in prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think a cartoon is just an illustration of a funny idea. The drawing style has to go along with the words, and be funny also,\u201d Roz Chast<\/strong><\/a> tells Liana Finck<\/strong> in the Art of Comics No. 3. Chast, a longtime contributor to The New Yorker<\/em> and the author of works such as 2014\u2019s National Book Critics Circle Award\u2013winning Can\u2019t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?<\/em>, considers how words and pictures \u201care conjoined twins. They\u2019re interconnected in a primary way. When I was at art school, and a painter, I missed the words, and when I write, I miss drawing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also in this issue: fiction by Anuk Arudpragasam<\/strong><\/a>, Camille Bordas<\/strong><\/a>, Lydia Conklin<\/strong><\/a>, Kenan Orhan<\/strong><\/a>, and Christina Wood<\/strong><\/a>, and poetry by Jennifer<\/a> Barber<\/a><\/strong>, Charles<\/a> Baudelaire<\/a><\/strong>, Marianne Boruch<\/strong><\/a>, Daisy Fried<\/strong><\/a>, Ishion Hutchinson<\/strong><\/a>, John Kinsella<\/strong><\/a>, Michael Klein<\/strong><\/a>, Jim Moore<\/strong><\/a>, Jesse<\/a> Nathan<\/a><\/strong>, Barbara Tran<\/strong><\/a>, and Matthew Zapruder<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Enjoy! And don\u2019t forget to subscribe<\/a> for full access to both the Summer 2021 issue and our complete sixty-eight-year archive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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