In March, The Paris Review launched The Art of Distance, a newsletter highlighting unlocked archive pieces that resonate with the staff of the magazine, quarantine-appropriate writing on the Daily, resources…
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Category: Literature
The Untranslatable
The poetry in the Summer 2020 issue hails from Portugal, Uruguay, Iran, France, India, China, Lithuania, and the United States. To celebrate the range of…
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Seeing the Country’s Shadows on My White Husband’s Face
A Black woman friend who also has a white husband confesses at the height of the George Floyd protests: “Times like these, I don’t…
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Staff Picks: Tricksters, Transmogrifications, and Treacherous Beauty
Marie NDiaye. Photo: © Francesca Mantovani. No one is condemned to being human in the world of Marie NDiaye. People become birds, skulk home as…
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How Neapolitan Cuisine Took Over the World
Edward White’s monthly column, “Off Menu,” serves up lesser-told stories of chefs cooking in interesting times. When a devastating cholera pandemic reached Italy in 1884,…
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Into the Narrow Home Below
Branwell Brontë, The Brontë Sisters (Anne Brontë; Emily Brontë; Charlotte Brontë), ca. 1834, oil on canvas, 35 1/2 x 29 1/4″. Public domain, via Wikimedia…
View More Into the Narrow Home BelowI’m So Tired
Sabrina Orah Mark’s column, Happily, focuses on fairy tales and motherhood. Arthur Rackham, Sleeping Beauty/Briar Rose, 1920 I am halfway through writing an essay about “Sleeping…
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On Translationese
Haruki Murakami and Kenzaburo Oe. Murakami photo: © Elena Seibert. I clearly remember the vivid colors of the two books—one red, the other green—that a…
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Redux: The Tempo Primed
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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Solace
On joy, cultural empathy, and the K-drama Crash Landing on You. Still from Crash Landing on You In April, I was suicidal for the first…
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