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“A fatal question—what are people reading these days? Never mind what people are reading these days. What should I be writing about is the fundamental question.”
The Paris Review promotes the most exciting writers of the day and supports inquisitive readers the world over.
New plays shown in New York's theater festivals early last month.
“By the time we finally reached the Castro, I genuinely believed Anne had gotten rich off being gay alone.”
Extracts from forthcoming books by Mohammed El-Kurd, Tove Jansson, Rupert Everett, Jade Scott, and Rachel-Hope Cleves.
“It is very cold outside, though less so inside the car, it seems, with the kufiyya lying across the dashboard, forming a coiled snake ready to strike.”
“Palm trees, felines, and extinct reptiles made of seashells, pine cones, toothpicks, wire, and wood.”
“My family stands / at its end, stops / storm-thrashed / on a forest’s fringe”