The Paris Review #250
155 x 235 mm, 270 pages
New York, US
Quarterly
Published since 1953
Editor: Emily Stokes
Art director: Na Kim
Designer: Matt Willey
Originally published from Paris, the review moved to New York in the sixties but retained its name. It has built an enviable reputation for discovering the best new voices in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry while also presenting indepth interviews with established figures. It was recently smartly redesigned by Matt WIlley, with a nod to earlier designs of the publication.
In this issue:
Fredric Jameson on the Art of Criticism: ‘Ideological critique has to end up being a critique of the self. You can’t recognize an ideology unless, in some sense, you see it in yourself.’
Hanif Kureishi on the Art of Fiction: ‘When I was in hospital in Rome, having the experience of being a paralyzed man nearly dead, my only excitement was in the thought that I could write some of this shit down.’
Prose by Dan Bevacqua, Caoilinn Hughes, Silas Jones, Alec Niedenthal, Adania Shibli, and Abdulah Sidran.
Poetry by Sargon Boulus, Egill Skallagrímsson, Rachel Mannheimer, Simone White, and Hua Xi.
Plus art by Ann Craven, Ala Ebtekar, and Josh Smith; cover by Seth Becker.