All photographs courtesy of Jean Garnett. The tears are the first tell, and what stops my scrolling: that’s not how tears work. The tears gather in wide, frightened eyes and spill over…
Making of a Poem: Geoffrey G. O’Brien on “Ray of Light”
Joshua Clover in 2014. Photograph by Joe Mabel. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Geoffrey G. O’Brien dedicated his poem “Ray of Light,” which appears in our recent Fall issue, no. 257,…
My Tamagotchi Diary
Photograph by Angie Sijun Lou. In the opening scene of Angie Sijun Lou’s short story, “Bubble,” which appears in our recent Fall issue, no. 257, the narrator goes with her father to…
Passages We Underlined This Fall
Every month, our desks at the Review pile up with dozens of soon-to-be published books, only some of which involve writers we have heard of, or subjects we know anything about. More…
Anne Carson Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
Photograph by Peter Smith. Courtesy of New Directions Books. The Nobel Prize committee announced this morning that the Canadian poet, essayist, classicist, and translator Anne Carson has won the 2026 award in…
Writers Whose Names You Don’t Know
Illustration by Na Kim Today marks the opening of our October online-submissions period for prose and poetry. This week, we asked our assistant editor, Owen Park, to describe the journey a piece…
On Children’s Books: Faith Ringgold’s The Invisible Princess
The author’s copy of The Invisible Princess by Faith Ringgold. Courtesy of Kenyatta Tatum Futterman. My mom got my sister and me The Invisible Princess from Target, which used to have good…
Naked at Last: A Conversation with F. Keith Wahle
Photograph courtesy of F. Keith Wahle. When the poet F. Keith Wahle was first published in The Paris Review, he was working at the Cincinnati Public Library. He’d lived in Cincinnati for almost…
Notes from a Party for a Dating App “Grounded in Lacanian Psycholinguistics”
Guests at the Readme launch party. Photographs by Matt Weinberger. Dreams can come true, and in dreams begin responsibilities. On a Thursday in September, I embarked on an evening of the sort…
Plan B Is Extremely Dangerous: Benjamin Moser on Anti-Zionism
Benjamin Moser in 2015, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Benjamin Moser is no stranger to life-writing, having written both the definitive English-language biography of the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector…