Michael Cunningham
Photograph by Richard Phibbs. By Nightfall, the sixth novel by Pulitzer Prize–winning Michael Cunningham, tells the story of Peter Harris, a gallery owner in Manhattan whose comfortable marriage is...
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An anonymous nineteenth-century painting. The hard truth is that not everyone has a novel in them. “I have no gift for invention,” I say to anyone who ever asks after my own ambitions—and why do people...
View ArticleAhoy! All Aboard the Paris Review Cruise
Join us for the inaugural Paris Review cruise! We’re thrilled to announce a new chapter for The Paris Review’s subscribers—an exciting opportunity to meet your fellow readers, enhance your writing...
View ArticleThe Landlord from Ioway: James Alan McPherson, 1943–2016
Photo by Tom Langdon. Although I didn’t yet know of his dying, I was thinking of James McPherson in the hours afterward, as I listened to President Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention....
View ArticleAkhil Sharma on An Obedient Father
Inspired by our famous Writers at Work interviews, “My First Time” is a series of short videos about how writers got their start. Created by the filmmakers Tom Bean, Casey Brooks, and Luke Poling,...
View ArticleKarl Ove Knausgaard on Out of the World
Inspired by our famous Writers at Work interviews, “My First Time” is a series of short videos about how writers got their start. Created by the filmmakers Tom Bean, Casey Brooks, and Luke Poling,...
View ArticleOne-Question Interview: Shruti Swamy
Shruti Swamy’s story in the Summer issue, “A House Is a Body,” blazes with the heat of a California wildfire. A mother who has been warned by firefighters to evacuate her home descends into a spiral of...
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