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Summer Issue 193
You might be familiar with the oeuvre of Caitlin Roper as The Paris Review's resident tweeter. In between tweets, Caitlin is managing editor of the Review. For the summer issue Caitlin has surpassed...
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The Poor Man’s Paris Review
This morning we received a copy of The Paris Magazine, which bills itself as “The Poor Man's Paris Review” and has appeared exactly four times since its founding in 1967. This isn't very often for a...
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A Week in Culture: Reagan Arthur, Part 2
This is the second installment of Arthur’s culture diary. Click here to read part 1. DAY FOUR 6:10 A.M. The New York Times. More about Israel and the Gaza attacks. A surprising waste of space devoted...
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A Week in Culture: Hilton Als, Part 2
This is the second installment of Als’s culture diary. Click here to read part 1. DAY FOUR I finished watching There Will Be Blood, hours after I'd returned from visiting an actor friend in Brooklyn....
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Daydream Trouble; Oxford Commas
Hello! I am a student. During my study time I should put my concentration to to study. But I can’t do it cuz of daydream. What should I do? —Anik Khan Hello there, my distant twin! Isn’t daydreaming...
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Work Frustrations; Social Climbing
Okay, I have a question about the ideal sort of job for a young writer. If not ideal, then certainly better. I am a gallery manager in Manhattan. It is an exhausting, constantly detail-oriented job...
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Dr. Collier
My novel, Balls, is a book in which the protagonist contracts testicular cancer. I'd done an extensive amount of research, but I still wasn’t an expert. I needed one, lest I publish a work that didn’t...
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Joshua Cohen and Gemma Sieff Answer Your Questions
This week, we are joined by our friends the novelist Joshua Cohen and the writer and editor Gemma Sieff, who lent us their wit and wisdom in service of your queries. I want to be a writer—one of those...
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That’s Material: An Interview with Daniel Menaker
Daniel Menaker doesn’t waste time in signaling his penchant for self-deprecation. The title of his wise, playful, deeply felt new memoir is My Mistake. And the memoirist, no mere tease, is happy to...
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Finishing Carpenter
Editing Don Carpenter’s final manuscript. Photo via doncarpenterpage.com Part of my job as a clerk at Berkeley’s great used bookstore Moe’s, in the early nineties, was to scour the massive wall of...
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You and Your Fantastic Hopes, and Other News
Kurt Vonnegut with his wife Jane and their three children, Mark, Edie, and Nanette, in 1955. Photo: Edie Vonnegut Our new Winter issue, out now, features an interview with Gordon Lish, the editor whose...
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What a Good Book Can Be: An Interview with Edwin Frank
In 1999, Edwin Frank founded New York Review Books to reintroduce out-of-print works—many in first translations from around the world—to the reading public. “From the beginning, it was our intention...
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You Are on Display: An Interview with Morgan Parker
Photo by Kwesi Abbensetts. Morgan Parker has a long résumé—she teaches and edits—that somehow hasn’t precluded a prolific career as a poet. Her first collection, Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at...
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There’s the Great Man
Befriending George Plimpton. George Plimpton in his office. George’s questions were like trampolines, a technology he admired. They bounced you higher—to the next question. This was particularly true...
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Monday: Terry McDonell and Graydon Carter at 92Y
Terry McDonell and Graydon Carter. Join Terry McDonell, president of The Paris Review’s board of directors, next Monday, September 19, at 92Y, as he discusses his new memoir, The Accidental Life: An...
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Plimpton, Papa, and Cuba
George Plimpton (center, top) and Ernest Hemingway (center) at a bullfight. Castro’s death has renewed an open, vibrant, and sometimes heated debate about his regime and its treatment of Cuban...
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Papa the Investor
How Hemingway became a major shareholder in a venerable Italian publishing house. Ernest Hemingway, with pigeons, in Venice, Italy, 1954. Ernest Hemingway had a rough time with his Italian publisher,...
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Bob Silvers’s Vision
Bob Silvers made his writers want to be equal to a possible image he had of a possible you. Robert B. Silvers I was thirty when Bob Silvers first sent me a book for review—a collection of Nabokov’s...
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An Editorial Exchange: Donald Hall and George Plimpton
George Plimpton and Donald Hall. Donald Hall served as The Paris Review’s first poetry editor from 1953 to 1961. His vast knowledge of contemporary poetry and demand for excellence helped set the...
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My Withered Legs
Barbara Stanwyck’s black belt on The Big Valley. Early on in my writing life, which for me was in my forties, I wrote a thinly disguised as fiction piece about a woman who needed to make immense...
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