When we asked Terrance Hayes to make a playlist for you, our readers, he wrote us a poem.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/09/19/terrance-hayess-soundtracks-for-most-any-occasion/
The short story is a merciless form, and its best practitioners have been merciless. Malamud, whom Flannery O’Connor admired, was an artfully cruel narrative architect. Nothing is ever easy f...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/01/29/mercilessness-clarifies-on-bernard-malamud/
Lydia Davis on John Dos Passos, her father, and why she doesn’t read certain books all the way to the end.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/01/15/john-dos-passos-at-the-92nd-street-y/
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr., we bring you audio from an unused portion of the Art of Fiction No. 139, an interview with Chinua Achebe conducted for issue no. 133 (Winter 1994) of The ...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/01/15/chinua-achebe-martin-luther-king-died-young/
To celebrate “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise,” the first feature documentary on the writer, listen to this 1988 recording of Plimpton interviewing Angelou.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/02/21/maya-angelou-with-george-plimpton/
Jean Rhys was born in Dominica, an island among the British West Indies. Though she spent most of her life in England, her time in the Caribbean left her with a distinctive, lilting accent. It s...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/08/24/jean-rhys-speaks/
At 92Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center, The Paris Review has copresented an occasional series of live conversations with writers—many of which have formed the foundations of interviews in the quart...
At 92Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center, The Paris Review has copresented an occasional series of live conversations with writers—many of which have formed the foundations of interviews in the quart...
At 92Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center, The Paris Review has copresented an occasional series of live conversations with writers—many of which have formed the foundations of interviews in the quart...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/04/06/i-couldnt-dig-it-an-interview-with-arthur-miller/
At 92Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center, The Paris Review has copresented an occasional series of live conversations with writers—many of which have formed the foundations of interviews in the quart...