The Paris Review #229

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.

Frank Bidart on the Art of Poetry: "Why do something unless it corresponds to the shape and language of one's inner life?" Lewis Lapham on the Art of Editing: "What happens to journalism in the sixties is that it becomes increasingly about the journalist. The so-called New Journalism was strenuously self-glorifying."

Fiction by Jonathan Escoffery, Richard Ford, Kimberly King Parsons, Mary Terrier, and Laura van den Berg.

Poetry by Frank Bidart, Jorge Luis Borges, Cynthia Cruz, Cornelius Eady, Paul Guest, Daniel Halpern, Edward Hirsch, Ishion Hutchinson, Lawrence Joseph, Debora Lidov, Campbell McGrath, Eileen Myles, Vivek Narayanan, D. Nurkse, Rosanna Warren, Lauren K. Watel, and Matthew Zapruder

Nonfiction by Lydia Davis. A portfolio by Alan Fears. A document by James Agee.