The Paris Review

One of the stellar literary journals of the twentieth century, The Paris Review continues to power ahead in a busy field today, not from Paris but from New York.

Originally established in the French capital in 1953 by three North American expats, Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton, who were publishing many of the biggest names in literature and reportage before the end of the journal's first decade. In 1973 The Paris Review relocated to New York where Plimpton continued as editor until his death in 2003. 

Since its inception the journal's mission has been to champion quality writing from outside the mainstream ('So long as they're good' – William Styron) and it continues maintain its reputation for uncovering impressive talent across fiction, non-fiction which it publishes alongside long-form interviews with notable personalities. 

Inside the Spring 2026 issue from the publisher:

Sarah Schulman on the Art of Nonfiction: “I like to have my say, obviously. And if people would have just let me talk, some of these books wouldn’t have had to be written.” 

Darryl Pinckney on the Art of Nonfiction: “There are moments when you run up against a white wall—there’s a white man, white man, white man, white man—and the story somehow has to be uncovered.”  

Prose by Ingeborg Bachmann, Dan Bevacqua, Patrick Cottrell, Zans Brady Krohn, Tao Lin, David Szalay, and Yu Hua.

Poetry by Inger Christensen, Rachel Lapides, Enrique Lihn, Joyelle McSweeney, Nakahara Chuya, and Asiya Wadud.

Art by Cecily Brown, Tom Fairs, and Cauleen Smith; cover by Cecily Brown.