Ideas of Heaven
The Bobbsey Twins series. “If there’s a heaven,” my mom said recently, “I imagine it’s filled with brand-new Barbara Pym novels I’ve never read.” There’s a particular desolation to finding you’ve...
View ArticleTrollope on the TV, and Other News
An illustration from Trollope’s Barchester Towers, which precedes Doctor Thorne in his Chronicles of Barsetshire series. Rachel Kushner, Francine Prose, Peter Carey, and at least three other prominent...
View ArticleRelax—It’s Our Summer Issue
Our new Summer issue features work in and about translation. There’s a story from Andrés Neuman and a sneak peek at Michel Houellebecq’s controversial novel, Submission, plus poems by Coral Bracho, Xi...
View ArticlePoignant Comic Magic
All illustrations by Jason Novak. As Paris Review subscribers know, every once in a while we serialize a novel. That is, we publish it in sections, usually over the course of a year, with recaps to...
View ArticleThe Natural Springs of New York City, and Other News
A woman drinks at Carman Spring, on West 175th Street east of Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, c. 1897–1902. Photo: James Reuel Smith/New York Historical Society. Today in the expenditure of effort:...
View ArticleA Comic Masterpiece from the Seventies
From Carcanet’s edition of The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium. Our complete digital archive is available now. Subscribers can read every piece—every story and poem, every essay, portfolio, and...
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