Jan Kerouac’s darker and more extreme brand of mischief make her father’s On the Road high jinks seem tame and even a tad ...

Five weeks after Fort Sumter, the official starting point of the war, Ellsworth’s Fire Zouaves received the command to sail ...

Warhol’s resigned tone belies what he woke up to and lived in day after day: the great something that was his work, which is ...

All through the twenty years I knew you your new poems surprised. Unexpected colors, new materials. David Hockney comes to ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

For a long time, Edward P. Jones has been one of the two or three writers most important to me. When I teach his stories, ...

Antique friendly robot. Photograph by Thomas Quine, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY 2.0. Read the first ...

It’s free money,” I told my friend during a subway ride. “It’s as easy as watching TV in your head or playing with dolls.” ...

Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the Review’s site. Often we’re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that stack ...

Yan Lianke’s story “Plants, Stones, Dirt, and Sky,” translated by Jeremy Tiang, appears in the Fall 2025 issue of The Paris Review. When an author is blocked from publication in his own country yet ...