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…
My Larval Roommates
Wenceslaus Hollar, Moth and Three Butterflies, 1646, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC0 1.0. Though the print issues of The Paris Review are never overtly themed, it often happens that, in the…
On the “Chattanooga Choo Choo”
Screenshot from Sun Valley Serenade (1941), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. I was a bop kid from the start. When Eric Carmen, the talented lead singer of the Raspberries, wrote “I’m a…
You Have to Ask Questions: Svetlana Alexievich, Unlocked
Svetlana Alexievich with a cameraman in Kabul, 1988. Courtesy of Svetlana Alexievich. Each week, The Paris Review unlocks stories, poems, and interviews from our archive for our readers. This week, to read alongside…
Kiss The Ring: Richard Wagner’s Opera Festival in the Age of AI
Richard Wagner Theater, Bayreuth, 1908, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. Nothing at Bayreuth, the hundred-and-fifty-year-old opera festival created by and dedicated to the works of Richard Wagner, adheres to the pleasure principle….
At the Conformation Show: Chasing the Ideal Dog
All photographs courtesy of Hannah Berger. The Meadow Event Park in Doswell, Virginia, lies on a few hundred acres of flat land abutted by farms and an amusement park called Kings Dominion….