Courtesy of The Jonestown Institute at San Diego State University, via Wikimedia Commons. From the outset there seemed to be little mystery as to the facts of the case at Jonestown. The…
Last Days at the Aqueduct: New York’s Rundown Racetrack
Courtesy of Max Callimanopulos. The first one thousand fans through the gates of the Aqueduct Racetrack on the last Sunday of June received a commemorative vial of track dirt. I arrived too…
My Year of Tests and Arbitration
Courtesy of Ottessa Moshfegh. Each week, The Paris Review unlocks stories, poems, and interviews for our readers from our archive. Sign up for the Redux newsletter to receive these pieces to your inbox every Sunday morning. The…
The Soothing Unsubtlety of UNBROKEN: The Untold Story of Shen Yun
Still from UNBROKEN: The Untold Story of Shen Yun. © 2026 Sincere Films, courtesy of Paulio Shakespeare and NTD. There’s this old joke from the Cold War. An American is on a…
The Bit Player: My Father with Steve Zissou
Photograph courtesy of Molly Cooper. In the mideighties, at my mother’s insistence, my father started seeing a psychoanalyst named Dr. Stein, who had an office on East Ninety-Sixth Street. I was around…
What We Talk About When We Talk About the Interstitium
Anatomical drawing of a human figure with dissected torso, 1927. Exposition d’art Medico-Historique, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Like many doctors I know, I found myself being peppered with…
How Could I Forget Odysseus?
“An ambitious adaptation of the Odyssey, enacted by us children.” Photograph courtesy of Emily Wilson. Each week, The Paris Review unlocks stories, poems, and interviews for our readers from our archive. Sign…
In Paris, in Tokyo, in Singapore, in Prague, I Stumble Out, Insane with Coffee
Hannah Tishkoff, Beginning of a Poem, 2026, colored pencil on found wood, 9 x 9.5 x 1 in, from issue no. 256. Courtesy of Hannah Tishkoff and OCHI, photograph by Deen Babakhyi….
A City Bigger Than a Bomb: Dispatch from Beirut
Maaysra, Lebanon. The site of an Israeli air strike that destroyed a house and killed fifteen people in the small village of Maaysra, north of Beirut. Hezbollah installed a poster blaming the…
César Aira’s Art of Not Editing
Photograph by Nina Subin. César Aira coined the term “the flight forward” (huirhacia adelante) to describe his deceptively simple writing process. Every morning he writes for one hour at a local Buenos…