The New York Times comments section usually calls it quits at around three thousand comments. The Washington Post used to go ...

The astronauts who planted their feet on the moon were outfitted in the same glaring white as a wedding dress.” ...

All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. I’m saying we have to graduate from pastiche and mimicry to ...

It’s a good time to investigate the paradoxes and special strangeness of Andy Kaufman and Paul Reubens, oddly alike in some ...

One of the earliest impulses I had was to do something like Annie Ernaux’s The Years, a kind of generational autobiography. I thought it would be cool to do a Gloucestershire, English version of that ...

The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.

The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.

We’re out until January 5, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! * A racetrack in obsolescence.Every year on the ...

Mia Goth’s eyes look naked. In every image, no matter how many times this face is reproduced, the vulnerability startles. Doe-eyed, doll-eyed, fair brows, hardly any visible lashes, she is sweetness ...

June 11, 2025 – “Emma has been called a detective novel, and with good reason: the fun of first reading it consists largely in scrutinizing the suspects and trying to figure out, not whodunnit, but ...

June 3, 2025 – “Taking in all the familiar faces speaking the tones of homeland, I exclaimed, ‘But it’s not possible!’ Mr. Chu smiled ruefully as if I had said, ’But you are ghosts.‘ ” ...

Nadja Spiegelman is the author of the memoir I’m Supposed to Protect You From All This, as well as four children’s books, including Lo st in NYC. She was the editor in chief of Astra Magazine, and is ...