The first letter I sent to him was about a print that he’d made, which was in the archive—a Chagall-inspired Virgin Mary ...

Each week, The Paris Review unlocks stories, poems, and interviews from our archive for our readers. This week, to read ...

September 22, 2026 – “In 2024, The Paris Review and BPI announced a partnership, through which a distinguished creative ...

Lately, though, I have become fascinated by the so-called big bands on the SiriusXM station called ‘40s Junction.’ ” ...

Instead, theatergoers a hundred years ago were introduced to a new character: Captain Ahab’s evil younger brother, Derek. Yes ...

February 19, 2015 – André Breton’s poem “The Verb to Be” originally appeared in our Spring 1985 issue. I know the general outline of despair. Despair has no wings, it doesn’t ...

In London, trash is called rubbish and taking it out is a science. There is a bag for trash, a bag for compost, and a bag for recycling, a bag that is bestowed by one’s neighbo(u)rhood council and ...

September 10, 2026 – “Saad passed through a boarded up, overgrown town and thought, Who would live in this place?” ...

And that the first thing he found in Hell was the sublime face of Atlas, who, with the world on his shoulders, ...

At a little more than fifty pages, “The Displaced Person” is one of Flannery O’Connor’s least anthologized stories—and if you share her beliefs about what she called “topical” stories, it’s also one ...

This year, we asked our contributors, our readers, our current and former interns, and other friends of the Review for their favorite books of the past year. Here’s what they said. Service by John ...

When Amia Srinivasan published her essay “Does Anyone Have the Right to Sex?” in the London Review of Books in early 2018, several months into the public discussions surrounding #MeToo, it provoked ...