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.

Spring 2026:

Prose by Zans Brady Krohn: Lorelei and Athens
Prose by Tao Lin: Gemstone
Interviews with Sarah Schulman: The art of Non-fiction 14 "Her non-fiction, on the other hand, anatomizes families, activist groups, and neighborhoods - revealing our tendencies toward exclusion and shaming and our potential for transformative collaboration."
Darryl Pinckney: The art of Non-fiction 15 "Over the course of half a century, Darryl Pinckney has produced a body of work, riveting in its insight and philosophical in its scope, whose primary focus is the making of black history itself."
Poetry by Joyelle McSweeney, Asiya Wadud, Rachel Lapides, Enrique Lihn, Nakahara Chuya, Inger Christensen
Art by Cauleen Smith and Cecily Brown

Winter 2025

Prose by Alec Niedenthal: The Junior Realtor
Hélène Cixous on The Art of Criticism No. 7 - "Today, Cixous sighs at the questions about the essay that propelled her to a level of international fame unusual for a young academic, but "medusa" called into being an idea, l'ecriture feminine, that has influenced generations of new writers - and is more nuanced and more radical than the translation "women's writing" might suggest"
Alice Oswald on The Art of Poetry No.119 - on Activism, protest, and life.
Poetry by Jana Prikryl, Monzer Masri, Millicent Borges Accardi, Ed Roberson, Alice Oswald
Art by Mieko Meguro and Joan Joans

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fall 2023:

Robert 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.

Summer 2023:

John 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.