The Paris Review #257
135 x 215 mm, 260 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. Over the following decades 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, and now finds itself the lodestar for a new generation of NYC literary magazines. It was smartly redesigned by Matt Willey a few years ago, with a nod to earlier designs of the publication.
This Fall 2026 edition leads with Californian painter Elizabeth Glaessner’s spectral oil painting, ‘Big Head’, depicting a muddy shoreline on which a solitary nude figure stands facing a giant upturned face looming on the horizon. Inside, you’ll find:
Svetlana Alexievich on the Art of Oral History: ‘If you cut straight to the part you need, which is what journalist do, it won’t be interesting, and it won’t be true, either. Not the whole truth.’
Donald Antrim on the Art of Fiction: ‘I deplored the idea that writing involves suffering, that it had to be a bloodletting. Later I found out that it would be, and maybe should be.’
Plus, prose by Angie Sijun Lou, Scott McClanahan, Brian Ma, Eka Kurniawan, Sam McKinniss, Tomoka Shibasaki, and Woo Dayoung, and poetry by Diane Seuss, Vasko Popa, Asha Futterman, Zakaria Mohammed, Natalie Shapero and Geoffrey G. O’Brien.
Art by Laura Owens and Silke Otto-Knapp.