The Paris Review » Best of 2014

We’re out until January 5, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! When I consider the neck, the first th...

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/01/02/the-other-side-of-the-face-2/

We’re out until January 5, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! * Foreclosed homes as haunted houses. ...

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/01/02/unhousing-2/

We’re out until January 5, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! * A childhood in incompletion. What wa...

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/01/02/homesick-for-sadness-2/

We’re out until January 5, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! Last week, the Times recognized a new ...

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/01/01/hey-thats-my-snare-drum-2/

We’re out until January 5, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! Cairo: the metal detector beeps. The s...

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/01/01/the-case-of-the-arabic-noirs-2/

We’re out until January 5, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! * Carl Van Vechten shaped and burnishe...

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/01/01/the-making-of-an-american-2/

We’re out until January 5, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! * Getting back on the skateboard. Not ...

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/12/31/contaminated-2/

We’re out until January 5, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! There were extenuating circumstances. ...

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/12/31/characters-get-together-2/

We’re out until January 5, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! * A political poem’s ironic new life...

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/12/31/on-the-slaughter-2/

We’re out until January 5, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! * A forgotten Midwestern religious sec...

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/12/30/illinois-jesus-2/