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On Swift
William Powell Frith, Jonathan Swift and Vanessa, 1881. Jonathan Swift is 349 years old today. Which is to say he’s beginning his 350th year. What was he anyway? Or never mind what he was; what did...
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Our Winter Issue: Rankine, Gray, Murray, and More
The interviews in our new Winter issue feature three writers who have defied received wisdom—writers who have expanded art’s role in the national conversation. The first is one of the most...
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Shirley Hazzard, 1931–2016
Photo: New York Society Library The call came at eleven at night. I was breathless, having raced inside to pick up. I’d been on my way out to dinner, and only a shot of curiosity at who might have...
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Delivering Packages to the Afterworld, and Other News
Jizo statues at Zōjō-ji Temple in Tokyo. Photo: Jakub Hałun Mainly writers are paid for cleaning your gutters, vacuuming under the seats in your car, and standing in line for you at the DMV. But...
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Alexia Arthurs Wins Plimpton Prize; Vanessa Davis Wins Terry Southern Prize
The Paris Review’s Spring Revel is coming up—tickets are available here—and our board has chosen the winners of two annual prizes for outstanding contributions to the magazine. It’s with great...
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Voyage to the Otherworld: A New Eulogy for Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury. At the end of February 2012, I was sitting in a bar in the Chicago Hilton, discussing Ray Bradbury. I was staying at the Hilton, and in a moment of Bradburian weirdness, I had been put...
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