August 21, 2025 – "We aligned the crabs one by one along a ruler before tagging them, measuring the length of their murky, ...

August 19, 2025 – "Suddenly I thought I should probably ride a bull. Or, more accurately, I suddenly found that I was going ...

Think of the fierce and implacable Lyanna Mormont, the child ruler played by Bella Ramsey in Game of Thrones. Think of the ...

From 1927 to early 1933, Walter Benjamin wrote and delivered some eighty to ninety broadcasts over the new medium of German radio, working between Radio Berlin and Radio Frankfurt. These broadcasts, ...

The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.

We begin the essay with an uncited photograph from history. Roland Barthes speaks of photographs of children from history, their innocence and morbidity. To look at an old photograph of children is to ...

The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.

Mary Ruefle, the poet and essayist, also makes unique hand-altered books: she sources, from thrift shops and used bookstores, secondhand texts from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.

Just like In Search of Lost Time, the narrative trajectory of Drake’s albums shows us an arriviste filled with hope and ...

In his new column “Line Readings,” Ivan Brunetti begins with a close read of a single comics unit—a panel, a page, or a spread—and expands outward to encompass the history of comics, and the world as ...