Jane Freilicher, 1924–2014
Jane Freilicher, Untitled, 1965. Jane Freilicher died last week at ninety; the New York Times’s obituary called her “a stubbornly independent painter whose brushy, light-saturated still lifes and...
View ArticleNow in Bloom: Our Spring Issue
The cherry blossoms on the cover of our new Spring issue augur the end of winter—even if they’re made of paper. They’re part of a portfolio by Thomas Demand, accompanied by poems from Ben Lerner. We...
View ArticleTuesday: Ben Lerner and Thomas Demand at MoMA Store
Our Spring issue featured “Sample Trees,” a portfolio by Thomas Demand and Ben Lerner. Demand constructed and photographed paper flowers based on a detail from a news photo of Katherine Russell, the...
View ArticleChubby Boys and Chubby Girls
“Chubby Boys and Chubby Girls,” a portfolio by Steve Gianakos, appeared in our Summer 1983 issue. Gianakos, who was born in 1938, had his most recent show earlier this year at Fredericks & Freiser;...
View ArticleEscape the Election with Our New Fall Issue
Have you heard about this election? It feels fun now, but give it time. There will come a moment when you long to escape the never-ending concussion that is electoral politics, and our new Fall issue...
View ArticleNew Paris Review Look, Same Great Paris Review Taste!
Do not adjust your sets: theparisreview.org has been fully redesigned and beautified. If you fear change, you’ll be horrified to learn that this new site is more than just a cosmetic improvement: it...
View ArticleOur 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...
View ArticleWinter Shadow Box
Our complete digital archive is available now. Subscribers can read every piece—every story and poem, every essay, portfolio, and interview—from The Paris Review’s sixty-three-year history....
View ArticleOur Spring Issue: Walter Mosley, Elias Khoury, Janet Malcolm, and More
Our new Spring issue features an interview with Walter Mosley, best known for his Easy Rawlins crime series, who talks about detective fiction, black male heroes, and the literary fixation on legacy:...
View ArticleHead Studies: A Conversation with Jameson Green
In Jameson Green’s studio. Photograph by Na Kim. Earlier this year, the Review commissioned the artist Jameson Green to paint a series of writers’ portraits for our new Summer issue—an idea Green came...
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