Jenny Odell on birding, context collapse, and the social media hellscape.

Luc Sante on the uncanny disturbance of the crime-scene photograph.

In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match.

Rachel Kushner on Matthew Porter’s photographs, ‘Gone in 60 Seconds,’ and the cars—flying and otherwise—she covets.

A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies…

This week, we’ve lowered the paywall on Wallace Stegner’s Art of Fiction interview, a short story by Joy Williams, and a poem by Mary Jo Bang.

During the late fifties, Penelope Mortimer was famous for being the beautiful, lauded authoress wife of the renowned barrister-cum-writer, John Mortimer.

The world needs to be rebuilt. How much of the past will we discard and how much will we keep?

The notion that a man can be both a father of children and a lover of men has been as hard to accept as the idea that Thomas Jefferson could be an apostle of liberty and an impregnator of slaves.

A writer takes a job as a tax accountant in a kiosk in a big-box store

Michael Robbins examines the strange, uneven, fascinating poetry of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.

UPCOMING EVENTS The Parisian: Isabella Hammad and Emily Nemens Emily Nemens will be in conversation with author Isabella Hammad to celebrate the publication of The Parisian. A masterful debut novel by…

This week, the staff of ‘The Paris Review’ embraces pop, obsesses over horses, and sets out to explore some of Věra Chytilová’s deep cuts.

God Alone by Tim Rollins Issue no. 128 (Fall 1993) It was important on this April night to open the windows, all of them, east and on the west, pushing the panes as high as they would go, to allow the…

From Anzia Yezierska’s chronicles of life on the Jewish Lower East Side, Valerie Stivers draws recipes for latkes, apple strudel, and kugel.

Much of the difficulty in Emily Dickinson’s work can be attributed to her distinctive agrammaticality. This quality presents an even greater challenge for the translator.

Dear Poets, I'm feeling a bit unmoored by all the things that are changing in my life. I'm looking for a poem to bolster me.

After Our Planet by Mark Strand Issue no. 125 (Winter 1992) I I am writing from a place you have never been, Where the trains don’t run, and planes Don’t land, a place to the west, Where heavy hedges…

I know how this sounds, the idea that someone would cross a border into another country to play some songs on a jukebox inside of a place named after a mistake some singer made in a song once.

In 2018, Chantal Joffe painted a self-portrait nearly every day. Olivia Laing takes in the chorus of faces.

Jill Talbot on the women she’s been, and the women she’s becoming.

The planets whirled across the blackboard all morning, Saturn with its twelve rings, Jupiter with its belts,red Mars, green Venus, the familiar blue Earthwhere we sat in that eighth-grade class…

In the tradition of Sir Walter Scott, Honoré de Balzac established France’s literary identity by depicting the trials and troubles of his fellow countrymen.