Tope Folarin. Photo: Beowulf Sheehan. Tope Folarin is a Nigerian American writer based in Washington, DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in…
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Category: Literature
Dial D for Dinner
In Off Menu, Edward White serves up lesser-told stories of chefs cooking in interesting times. Alma Reville with a wax figure of Alfred Hitchcock’s head,…
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Redux: Come, Be My Camera
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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N. Scott Momaday Will Receive Our 2021 Hadada Award; Eloghosa Osunde Wins Plimpton Prize
Every year, the Paris Review Board of Directors gives awards to recognize remarkable contributions to literature. This year, the directors are celebrating two extraordinary writers…
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Poets on Couches: Carrie Fountain Reads Maya C. Popa
National Poetry Month has arrived, and with it a second series of Poets on Couches. In these videograms, poets read and discuss the poems that…
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Staff Picks: Comma Splices, Nice Zones, and Ladies Alone
Nona Fernández. Photo: Sergio Lopez Isla. Courtesy of Graywolf Press. There is an incantatory quality to Nona Fernández’s The Twilight Zone, a feeling of walking,…
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Untitled, No Date
As is the case with far too many artists, the multitalented Frank Walter (1926–2009) did not receive his due during his lifetime. By all accounts…
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Four Memories of Giancarlo DiTrapano
Giancarlo DiTrapano, the fearless founder, publisher, and editor of Tyrant Books, died this past week at the age of forty-seven. Fiercely independent and loyal to…
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The Tarot Is a Chameleon
Leonora Carrington, Playing Tarot, ca. 1995, graphite and gouache on paper, 22 x 36 1/4″. Private collection. © Estate of Leonora Carrington / ARS, New…
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Redux: A Man Says Yes without Knowing
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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