The Paris Review

The Paris Review publishes the best fiction, poetry, art, and essays from new and established voices, and the Writers at Work interviews offer some of the most revealing self-portraits in literature.

The Paris Review

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Crystal Palace

The Common Era

The Art of Fiction No. 267

The War Is Over • Translated from the Arabic by Wiam El-Tamami

Monsieur Matin • Translated from the French by Jordan Stump

Three World Tours!

from Penitential Cries

The Hedgehog • Translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang

Project Apollo

Walter, Like Water

My Aerodynamics

Three Stories • Translated from the Italian by Oonagh Stransky

Spring • Translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith

The Art of Criticism No. 6

Downtown (Altar)

La Comédie-Française

A Truce That Is Not Peace

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