Willa Cather was not a flashy stylist, and though she was ambitious in her work, she did not attach it to a publicity-worthy life like some of her contemporaries, such as Ernest Hemingway and...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02/27/willa-cather-pioneer/
The hopeful dystopia of Pushwagner’s Soft City.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/12/26/here-comes-the-moon-2/
The interviews from our Summer issue are now online in their entirety, freely available for subscribers and nonsubscribers alike.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/12/06/now-online-interviews-dag-solstad-jay-mcinerney/
The hopeful dystopia of Pushwagner’s Soft City. Where does art begin? In the case of Soft City, the straightforward answer is this: it began in Fredrikstad, Norway, in 1969, in a sea captain�...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/10/17/here-comes-the-moon/
It’s Banned Books Week, and everyone is rallying around the classics: your Gatsbys, your Catcher in the Ryes, your Mockingbirds and Lady Chatterleys. No one is giving any love to Snorri the Sea...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/09/29/snorri-the-seal/
When Karl Ove Knausgaard joins us in New York this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday for the Norwegian-American Literary Festival, he’ll do so not just as the author of My Struggle but as the publ...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/05/16/knausgaard-the-publisher/
Readers of the Review know that the Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier is one of our favorite young directors. (See Issue 203 for a discussion of his first two features, Reprise and Oslo, August 3...
Readers in the U.S. await the fifth volume of My Struggle—but in Norway, Karl Ove Knausgaard has moved on. With the money from Struggle’s sales, he’s established his own publishing house, d...
If you’ve seen Fantasia, you are, whether you know it or not, familiar with the work of Kay Nielsen, a Danish artist whose illustrations collide light and dark in sublime, often disquieting qua...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/12/03/east-of-the-sun-and-west-of-the-moon/
Once upon a time, a newly married couple rode an old train from Myrdal to Flåm. The train passed through mountains and valleys, past waterfalls and vast lakes. Often the climb was dramatically ...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/15/fairy-tale-ending/