The Best of The Paris Review
10+ most popular The Paris Review articles, as voted by our community.
Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.
The Paris Review on Addiction
The Paris Review on Biology
The Paris Review on Books
Looking for Virginia Woolf's Diaries
“That’s the thing about life, something you think lends it a purpose doesn’t last forever.”
How the Booksellers of Paris Are Preparing for Next Summer’s Olympics
“I hate sport, and I have a horror of circus games.”
The Paris Review on Culture
We’re More Ghosts Than People
On finding a version of heaven—or, perhaps, life—in Red Dead Redemption 2.
The Paris Review on History
The Written World and the Unwritten World
“We write to make it possible for the unwritten world to express itself through us.”
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“Surely there's nothing so dangerous as an aphorism concrete enough to catch its own reflection.”
The Paris Review on Iran
Notes from Iran - The Paris Review
Before this September, I hadn’t heard from Yara in months. They’re an Iranian journalist who has reported for the country’s most prominent newspapers and publications. We first met in New York in 2018…
The Paris Review on Poetry
The Art of Poetry No. 101
“I am not much of a morning person,” Jeremy Prynne warned us, as we made arrangements for this interview. “My natural habitat seems to be the hours of darkness, ad libitum. So I’ll be pretty useless…
«My natural habitat seems to be the hours of darkness, ad libitum. So I’ll be pretty useless until about ten thirty or eleven a.m. at best: but at the other end of the day I never tire.”»
Comics as Poetry
Ivan Brunetti on Lynda Barry, and all the things that can happen in the space of four panels.
The Paris Review on Women
Why Do Women Want?: Edith Wharton’s Present Tense
“Is it possible to both appreciate Undine’s talent for survival while also refusing to mistake it for freedom?”
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Why Write? - The Paris Review
“I’ve been collecting these theories of why writers write because so many writers have written about it.”
«I encountered Joan Didion’s famous line about why she writes—“entirely to find out what I’m thinking”»
E. E. Cummings and Krazy Kat
In 1910, a mouse named Ignatz first beaned Krazy Kat with a brick. The plot of this comic strip, centered on a “heppy go lucky kat,” is simple. Krazy Kat loves Ignatz Mouse. Officer Pup loves Krazy…
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The library museum ruptures our habitual schema for what to do when confronted with a text. We cannot comprehend the sentences, the words, the script itself even. And furthermore. we are not meant to,…
Scenes from an Open Marriage
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A Brief History of Word Games
Ever since we’ve had language, we’ve played games with words.
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