The Paris Review #255
135 x 215 mm, 242 pages
New York, US
Quarterly
Published since 1953
Editor: Emily Stokes
Art director: Na Kim
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 in depth interviews with established figures. It was smartly redesigned by Matt Willey a few years ago, with a nod to earlier designs of the publication.
The bright, spring cover by Cecily Brown takes Peter Breughel the elder’s painting ‘Netherlandish Proverbs,’ as inspiration for a crowded scene portraying proverbs: crying over spilled milk, throwing stones from glass houses, tipping a baby out with the bathwater, holding a bird in the hand, pining for greener grass etc.
Inside, you’ll find writing by Ingeborg Bachmann, Dan Bevacqua, Patrick Cottrell, Zans Brady Krohn, Tao Lin, David Szalay, and Yu Hua; Poetry by Inger Christensen, Rachel Lapides, Enrique Lihn, Joyelle McSweeney, Nakahara Chuya, and Asiya Wadud; and art by Tom Fairs, Cauleen Smith and, from Brown, more works about Proverbs.