The Paris Review Literary Journal

Single issues of the legendary Paris Review literary magazine. Each issue features essays, reviews, poetry and the famous Art Of Fiction interviews.

Summer 2023:

• J ohn Keene on the Art of Fiction: “What my countereducation said at a very basic level was, You have value. Black people around the world are the center, they’re not the margin.”
• Sharon Olds on the Art of Poetry: “If I had to choose between a poem being therapeutic and it being a better poem, I’d want it to be a better poem.”
• Prose by Lydia Davis, Jamie Quatro, and James Lasdun.
• Poetry by Jessica Laser, Mirta Rosenberg, and Leopoldine Core.
• Art by Jameson Green and Margot Bergman, and cover by Emilie Louise Gossiaux.

Fall 2023:

• R obert Glück on the Art of Fiction: “When people would ask me—and sometimes they did—to write about them, I’d reply, ‘First, break my heart.’”
  
• Lynn Nottage on the Art of Theater: “I embrace the fact that I write plays that are popular. Audiences make their own decisions.” 
• Prose by Rosalind Brown, Munir Hachemi, and Ishion Hutchinson. 
• Poetry by Bei Dao, D. A. Powell, and Mónica de la Torre. 
• Art by Eric Nathaniel Mack and Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, and cover by Joeun Kim Aatchim.

Winter 2023:

• Louise Glück on the Art of Poetry: “You want a poem to register in every mind the way it did in yours. Then you discover this never happens.”
  
• Yu Hua on the Art of Fiction: “If I’d taken another two or three years to start writing, I’d still be a dentist.”
• Prose by Ananda Devi, Fiona McFarlane, and Sean Thor Conroe.
• Poetry by Harryette Mullen, Alice Notley, and Farid Matuk.
• Art by Marcius Galan and Claudia Keep, and cover by Sarah Charlesworth.

Spring 2024:

• Jhumpa Lahiri on the Art of Fiction: “My question is, What makes a language yours, or mine?” 
• Alice Notley on the Art of Poetry: “Writing is not therapy. That’s the last thing it is. I still have my grief.” 
• Prose by Elijah Bailey, Julien Columeau, Joanna Kavenna, Samanta Schweblin, Eliot Weinberger, and Joy Williams.
• Poetry by Gbenga Adesina, Elisa Gabbert, Jessica Laser, Maureen N. McLane, Mary Ruefle, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, and Matthew Zapruder.
• Art by Farah Al Qasimi and Chris Oh, and covers by Nicolas Party.

Summer 2024:

• Mary Robison on the Art of Fiction: “The first thing they’d say was ‘This is a nice story—where’s your novel?’ And I would just lie my head off. ‘Oh, it’s at home. It’s almost there!’” 
• Elaine Scarry on the Art of Nonfiction: “A lot of my troubles in life have come from taking literally what I should have understood as figurative.”
• Prose by Peter Cornell, Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, Renee Gladman, Nancy Lemann, Banu Mushtaq, K Patrick, and Anne Serre.
• Poetry by Mosab Abu Toha, Diana Garza Islas, Homer, Douglas Kearney, Kim Hyesoon, Masaoka Shiki, Patty Nash, and Jana Prikryl.
• Art by Jeremy Frey, Lauren Halsey, and G. Peter Jemison.

Fall 2024:

• Rosmarie Waldrop on the Art of Poetry: “It puzzles me that people say my work is difficult. If you read it, it’s very simple.” 
• Javier Cercas on the Art of Fiction: “Hell, to me, is a literary party.” 
• James Schuyler on Frank O’Hara: “I still can see Frank, standing on that street corner outside a pastry shop, holding a neatly tied-up box of God knows what—éclairs, perhaps.” 
• Prose by Josephine Baker, Caleb Crain, Marlene Morgan, Morgan Thomas, and Fumio Yamamoto.
• Poetry by Hannah Arendt, Matt Broaddus, Sara Gilmore, Benjamin Krusling, Mark Leidner, James Richardson, and Margaret Ross.
• Art by Ayé Aton and Ron Veasey, and cover by Sterling Ruby.

Winter 2024:

• Fredric Jameson on the Art of Criticism: “Ideological critique has to end up being a critique of the self. You can’t recognize an ideology unless, in some sense, you see it in yourself.” 
• Hanif Kureishi on the Art of Fiction: “When I was in hospital in Rome, having the experience of being a paralyzed man nearly dead, my only excitement was in the thought that I could write some of this shit down.” 
• Gerald Murnane on the Art of Fiction: “A fatal question—what are people reading these days? Never mind what people are reading these days. What should I be writing about is the fundamental question.” 
• Prose by Dan Bevacqua, Caoilinn Hughes, Silas Jones, Alec Niedenthal, Adania Shibli, and Abdulah Sidran. 
• Poetry by Sargon Boulus, Egill Skallagrímsson, Rachel Mannheimer, Simone White, and Hua Xi. 
• Art by Ann Craven, Ala Ebtekar, and Josh Smith; cover by Seth Becker.