Bud Smith is the author of the novel Teenager and the story collection Double Bird, among other books. Mighty, a novel, is ...

Jan Kerouac’s darker and more extreme brand of mischief make her father’s On the Road high jinks seem tame and even a tad ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

Antique friendly robot. Photograph by Thomas Quine, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY 2.0. Read the first ...

For a long time, Edward P. Jones has been one of the two or three writers most important to me. When I teach his stories, ...

In The Philosophy, the artist Andy Warhol tells us relatively little about how he became Warhol. He shares parts of his story in this series of aperçus about death, love, taxes, and beauty, among ...

All through the twenty years I knew you your new poems surprised. Unexpected colors, new materials. David Hockney comes to ...

Yan Lianke’s story “Plants, Stones, Dirt, and Sky,” translated by Jeremy Tiang, appears in the Fall 2025 issue of The Paris Review. When an author is blocked from publication in his own country yet ...

Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the Review’s site. Often we’re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that stack ...