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Hey, Is That Proust? and Other News
Quite possibly Proust. Photo via the Guardian. All those years of watching old wedding footage and searching for dead authors has really paid off: they’ve found Proust! In what’s believed to be his...
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The Right to Speak
“Africa was colonized, and so is its cinema,” Sidney Sokhona wrote. His films aimed to change that. Still from Safrana. The first time we see Sidney Sokhona, the director and star of Nationalité:...
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Diary of a Displaced Person
Jonas Mekas, Kassel, April 1946. In 1944, at the age of twenty-two, Jonas Mekas left his small village in Lithuania, then occupied by the Nazis, in the company of his brother Adolfas. Mekas had begun...
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Staff Picks: Degradation, Demolition, Disillusion
Brianna McCarthy, Garden of Lost Things. From the cover of Electric Arches. Eve Ewing is a sociologist of education, so it’s no wonder my favorite poem in her first collection, Electric Arches,...
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Feeling Foreign: An Interview with Hernan Diaz
Photo: Jason Fulford In Hernan Diaz’s first novel, In the Distance, Håkan Söderström, a Swedish immigrant, traverses the western expanse of nineteenth-century America on his way to New York to find...
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We Speak About Violence: Abdellah Taïa and Edouard Louis in Conversation
In 2013, the French writer Edouard Louis organized a symposium on autofiction at the École Normale Superieure, in Paris, where he was studying. The symposium was titled “Je vois écrit: Ecriture de...
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Mermaids and Transgressive Sex: An Interview with Alexia Arthurs
How to Love a Jamaican, Alexia Arthurs’s first book, is a short-story collection that delves into the lives of people who have Jamaica in common. Whether it’s the place they currently live, the...
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Poetry Rx: Your Naked Back in the Mirror
In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week,...
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Salka Viertel’s Forgotten Account of Old Hollywood
Salka Viertel with Greta Garbo. Back in the day (the late thirties and early forties), many of the Central European cultural émigrés in flight from Hitler’s depredations back home who’d found...
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Redux: Miles of Mostly Vacant Lots
Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to...
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