On Linda Boström Knausgård’s novella Welcome to America and the end of childhood. Still from Village of the Damned (1960) Every night when I was…
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Category: Literature
Blue Alabama
Andrew Moore, Yolanda Walker at The Purple Bowl, Pink Bottom, 2018. There are others who are not remembered, as if they had never lived, who…
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Dislocated Realities: A Conversation Between Helen Phillips and Laura Van Den Berg
Helen Phillips (left) and Laura Van Den berg (right) When an early copy of Helen Phillips’s new novel The Need turned up at my apartment,…
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Voicing Our Fears
Had I not been a writer, I would have liked to be a singer, a parrot, a spy, or a neurosurgeon. Unfortunately, the only…
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Literary Paper Dolls: Rebecca
illustrations © Jenny Kroik You see her sometimes on the way to work. On the train, or on line at the coffee shop where, though…
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The Real Tragedy of Beth March
Illustration from Little Women, 1869. Courtesy of Houghton Library at Harvard University. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. In the first chapter of Little Women, when…
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I Was Dilapidated
Émile Bernard, Mother and Child, 1898, oil on canvas, 15″ x 18″. Public domain. “What did you have?” “A boy.” “Congratulations.” If your first child…
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Redux: A Heat That Hung Like Rain
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…
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Natalia Ginzburg’s Broken Mirror
Francesco Hayez, Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni, 1841, oil on canvas, 46″ x 36″. Public domain. The Manzoni Family is a meeting between two authors who…
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Dark Thread: An Interview with Kimberly King Parsons
Kimberly King Parsons is a writer who lives in the wilderness. When we spoke on the phone, we were interrupted by the cawing of a…
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