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Pinning Down: A Conversation with Catrin Morgan
Air dies elsewhere, graphite on paper, 10 cm x 10 cm. Catrin Morgan has a history of sticking pins through words. (Check out her ongoing project, Pinning, which was installed at the Bromley House...
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The Surreal Life
A young woman from an affluent family finds herself dreading her formal entrance into high society. An affable hyena offers to take her place; the young woman acquiesces, but the hyena demands a face...
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Staff Picks: Dreamers, Dealers, Kidney Donors
An illustration by Gustave Doré for Poe’s “The Raven.” The two things I like most about annotated classics are the annotations and the pictures—which are really the point, if you think about it: you...
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The Norwegian-American Literary Festival Returns
Photo: Johannes W. Berg. For the last few years, The Paris Review has cohosted The Norwegian-American Literary Festival, gathering a small group of American and Norwegian writers and critics for a...
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Knausgaard the Publisher
The Pelikanen team. When Karl Ove Knausgaard joins us in New York this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday for the Norwegian-American Literary Festival, he’ll do so not just as the author of My Struggle but...
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Why Write Fiction in 2017?
Constantin Alajalov, cover for The Saturday Evening Post, February 12, 1949 Most nights, before I go to bed, I sneak into the room where my infant son sleeps, steal across the floor, and kill the...
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Ode to Joy
Last month, midway through the seven-hour drive between Marfa and Austin, my friends and I sat at a picnic table over burnt winter grass, eating the last of our forty grapefruits and some cold steak...
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Announcing Our Summer Issue
Our Summer issue opens with a selection from Jan Morris’s diary, begun in 2016, and each time I read it, I am struck anew by the capaciousness of her thoughts. In seventeen entries, she revisits...
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Staff Picks: Trick Mirrors, Summer Beers, and Bedazzled Pianos
Photo: M. Sharkey All of the essays in Alexander Chee’s marvelous collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel are striking, but I found the shortest essay, simply titled “1989,” the most...
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Dick and Jane, Forcibly Drowned and Then Brought Back to Life
Diane Williams has spent her long, prolific career concocting fictions of perfect strangeness, most of them no more than a page long. She’s a hero of the form: the sudden fiction, the flash fiction,...
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