“What a time to be there, amid the influx of Westerners shopping in the dollars-only markets.”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/08/25/lifelines-on-santa-barbara/
Zohar Atkins, Nathan Goldman, David Heti, Sheila Heti, and Noreen Khawaja discuss the joke at the end of Woody Allen's Annie Hall.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/04/22/we-need-the-eggs/
This week, the staff of ‘The Paris Review’ dips into the careers of Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, reengages with a favorite meme, and cringes through ‘High Life.’
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/04/05/staff-picks-bangs-barbie-and-bodies/
Mary Norris recounts the beginning of her love affair with Greek mythology.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/04/02/athena-goddess-of-copyediting/
The legendary composer—known for his work with Sergio Leone, Brian De Palma, and Quentin Tarantino—discusses his passion for chess.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/03/15/ennio-morricone-plays-chess/
Saidiya Hartman imagines what the queer icon Gladys Bentley’s life might look like as an Oscar Micheaux film.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/02/28/the-wayward-life-of-gladys-bentley/
This week, we’ve lowered the paywall on John Gregory Dunne’s Art of Screenwriting interview, a short story by Susan Minot, and a poem by Chase Twichell.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/02/26/redux-eerie-fictions-of-the-afternoon/
This week, to celebrate (or at least acknowledge) the Oscars, the staff of ‘The Paris Review’ goes to the movies.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/02/22/staff-picks-features-films-and-flicks/
The Oscar-nominated skateboarding documentary is set in Rockford, my hometown, a place whose story I have tried—and failed—to tell.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/02/22/skate-escape-on-minding-the-gap/
This week, the staff of ‘The Paris Review’ burrows into blankets, breezes through Butler, and basks in the beauty of Keanu Reeves.