Barbara Trapido’s Brother of the More Famous Jack, originally published in 1982 and reissued this year by New York Review Books, opens with its young heroine, Katherine, reading the preface of a…
MJ Lenderman on Harry Crews: This Fucked-Up Guy
MJ Lenderman. Photograph by Sol Procter-Tarabanov. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. I came to the work of Harry Crews through word of mouth about the printed page. When I was still a…
Campaign Literature: Election Day 2026
John Ashbery, Eleven Collages. From issue no. 188 (Spring 2009). Today is Election Day in the United States, the second midterm referendum on the second Trump administration and, given that polls on…
Our Fall Issue Cover: Elizabeth Glaessner’s Big Head
Elizabeth Glaessner in her studio in Brooklyn. Photograph by Hazel Byers. Our recent Fall issue features a painting titled Big Head, by the Brooklyn-based artist Elizabeth Glaessner: a nearly-seven-foot piece that, for the…
Alisa Weilerstein’s Cello
Photograph by Marco Borggreve. Courtesy of Alisa Weilerstein. It didn’t eat, didn’t drink, didn’t sleep. It certainly didn’t cough and sneeze during performances. It made no demands. Quiescently it languished in its…
Ernest Hemingway, Unlocked: The Sun Is Still Rising
Ernest Hemingway, ca. 1939. Photograph by Lloyd Arnold, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Each week, The Paris Review unlocks stories, poems, and interviews from our archive for our readers. This week, to mark the…
Turner Brooks’s Spatial Memories
As a child, Turner Brooks would lie awake in the smallest bedroom of a creaky seaside house in Maine. From below, he could hear his grandparents talking in the living room, and…
The Uncanny Catharsis of the AI Emomercial
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…