The Paris Review #232

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.

Rachel Cusk on the Art of Fiction: "I still don't really know where a book comes from, like a child doesn't know where babies come from." Nathaniel Mackey on the Art of Poetry: "By making breath more evident, more material, more dwelled-upon, they make black breath matter, implicitly insist that black lives matter."

Fiction by Senaa Ahmad, Jesse Ball, Rebecca Makkai and Clare Sestanovich.

Poetry by Griffin Brown, Billy Collins, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Jeffrey Harrison, Zoë Hitzig, James Longenbach, Jayanta Mahapatra, G. C. Waldrep, and Kevin Young.

Nonfiction by Beth Nguyen. A portfolio by Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, with an essay by Edwidge Danticat.