The Paris Review #226

The Paris Review is a renowned, quarterly English-language literary magazine a founded in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton, and now based in New York City. It is known for publishing original fiction, poetry, and essays by both emerging and established writers, and for its in-depth "Writers at Work" series of interviews with significant literary figures. The magazine also maintains an active website, theparisreview.org, which features its articles, interviews, and a daily online publication.

Penelope Lively on the Art of Fiction: "A novel should reflect its society and its circumstances." Frederick Wiseman on the Art of Documentary: "Before the film is finished, I have to be able to put into words why I have selected each shot and the meaning I attach to the order of the sequences."

New fiction by Pilar Fraile Amador, Pilar Fraile Amador, Nell Freudenberger, Rachel Khong, Mary Miller, and Diane Williams.

Poems by Lucie Brock-Broido, Jericho Brown, Grady Chambers, Marilyn Chin, Henri Cole, Louise Glück, Ishion Hutchinson, William Logan, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, Spencer Reece, Martha Ronk, Noah Warren, and Adam Zagajewski.

Nonfiction by Mitchell S. Jackson. A portfolio curated by Charlotte Strick, with an essay by Claire Vaye Watkins. And five poems by Max Jacob translated by Elizabeth Bishop with an essay by Rosanna Warren.