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Why David Means Is Not a Novelist
Photograph by Max MeansSince his 1991 debut “A Quick Kiss of Redemption,” David Means has established himself among the finest and most incisive American writers of contemporary short fiction—and as...
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Before There Was Twilight, There Was Dusk
Add James Salter's Dusk to the list of genius reissues coming out this year. Modern Library has put out a handsome new edition of the story collection, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award when it first...
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Karen Russell on ‘Swamplandia!’
Photograph by Michael Lionstar. Swamplandia! is twenty-nine-year-old Karen Russell’s first novel. But the Miami native is already well known in literary circles for her debut story collection, St....
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James Salter Wins the 2010 Rea Award
Photograph by Lan Rys. James Salter, winner of The Paris Review’s 2011 Hadada Prize, has been given the 2010 Rea Award for the Short Story, a lifetime-achievement prize bestowed annually on “a living...
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420 Characters
Illustration by Lou Beach.The stories you are about to encounter were written as status updates on a large social-networking site. These updates were limited to 420 characters, including letters,...
View ArticleLydia Davis’s “Local Obits”
In seventh grade, I was teased mercilessly about my funny speaking voice, and I’ve been self-conscious about it ever since. It took some persuading to get me to make this recording, and it’s a...
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Claire Vaye Watkins Wins Dylan Thomas Prize
We are delighted to announce that Claire Vaye Watkins has won the Dylan Thomas Prize, awarded to the best work of literature published by an author under the age of thirty, for her debut short story...
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“In a House Besieged”
Our Spring Revel is tonight. In anticipation of the event, the Daily is featuring a series of posts celebrating Lydia Davis, who is being honored this year with The Paris Review’s Hadada Award. Here,...
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“Bad Behavior”: An Interview with Alexia Arthurs
Photo of Alexia Arthurs by Kaylia Duncan.“Bad Behavior,” a short story by Alexia Arthurs in our new Summer issue, follows Stacy, the teenage daughter of Jamaican immigrants living in Brooklyn. After a...
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Summer on the Stones
Chekhov, Thomas Mann, and the longueurs of vacationing.After a proposal from a rich but ridiculous suitor, Tony Buddenbrook, the high-society heroine of Thomas Mann’s first novel, leaves the German...
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Sand
Gertrude Käsebier, Portrait of a Young Man, platinum print, 1907. Barry Yourgrau’s story “Sand” appeared in our Spring 1985 issue. It appears (in slightly different form) in his collection Wearing...
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The Subtractionist
Our complete digital archive is available now. Subscribers can read every piece—every story and poem, every essay, portfolio, and interview—from The Paris Review’s sixty-three-year history....
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Guy Davenport’s Elusive Prose
London Tower Bridge, 1901. Our complete digital archive is available now. Subscribers can read every piece—every story and poem, every essay, portfolio, and interview—from The Paris Review’s...
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Fantasy and Reality
Ironically, one of the questions a writer of fiction hears most often is, How much of the story is true? It is a slightly annoying question. One is prompted to ask whether the story does not stand...
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Wants to Forget
René Magritte, The Empire of Light, II, 1950. We are in the midst of a cynical self-reckoning as the not too illustrious children of a not too illustrious epoch that will consider itself truly...
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Yvan Alagbé’s “Dyaa”
The French Beninese cartoonist Yvan Alagbé has been an influential player in the French avant-garde comics scene since the early nineties, when he copublished the anthology Le cheval sans tête. In...
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Redux: If You Can Hoe Corn for Fifty Cents an Hour …
Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to...
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Redux: The Idea of Women’s Language
Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to...
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Ave Marías: An Interview with Javier Marías
It has been said of Anthony Trollope that as soon as he finished a novel, he turned to a fresh page and started on the next, and it’s tempting to think that Javier Marías enjoys a similarly...
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Dick and Jane, Forcibly Drowned and Then Brought Back to Life
Diane Williams has spent her long, prolific career concocting fictions of perfect strangeness, most of them no more than a page long. She’s a hero of the form: the sudden fiction, the flash fiction,...
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