The Paris Review #230

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.

Alice McDermott on the Art of Fiction: "If there’s anything fun about composing a novel—and on many days, I’m not sure there is—it’s in finding the architecture of a story."

Michael Hofmann on the Art of Translation: "Isn’t everything untranslatable when you come down to it?"

Fiction by Anuk Arudpragasam, Matthew Baker, Olivia Clare, Leigh Newman, William Styron, and Diane Williams. Poetry by Charles Bernstein, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Stephanie Burt, Anders Carlson-Wee, Tadeusz Dąbrowski, Sally Dawidoff, Camille Dungy, Jeffrey Gustavson, John Koethe, Joyce Carol Oates, Donald Platt, Kevin Prufer, Damion Searls, Solmaz Sharif, Mary Szybist, Liza Watkins, and Amy Woolard.

A tribute to Susannah Hunnewell. A portfolio by Sayuri Ichida, with an essay by Chloe Honum.