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William Styron
On when he writes: “I like to stay up late at night and get drunk and sleep late. . . . The afternoon is the only time I have left . . . ”
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Click here to read Elizabeth Gilbert's “The Famous Torn and Restored Lit Cigarette Trick,” which John Hodgman called “the best short story I have ever read.”

Spring books from The Paris Review.

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The Spring 2008 Revel honored Peter Matthiessen and Jesse Ball. Click here to see photos from the event.

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NEW SPRING ISSUE AVAILABLE NOW


Kazuo Ishiguro on the art of fiction.

A recently discovered interview with Leonard Michaels.

New fiction from J. David Stevens and a debut story from Ryan McIlvain.

Spring poetry by Dan Chiasson, Katie Ford, and Tomaž Šalamun.

The trumpeter's collages: artwork from Louis Armstrong.

Mark Dow on Jerusalem, the Brooklyn Public Library, and beets.

Plus Tim Winton on surfing (“I couldn't take my eyes from those plumes of spray, the churning shards of light”) and a photo sketch-book of an airship in flight over the rainforest by Lena Herzog and Graham Dorrington.




Read the three stories from
The Paris Review that were nominated for a 2008 National Magazine Award in fiction.

“Monsieur Kalashnikov” by André Aciman
“Speak No Evil” by Uzodinma Iweala
“Icebergs” by Alistair Morgan


  FROM THE NEW ISSUE

Earth
Katie Ford

Wild horses folded into their last night.
One burrowed against the dead’s descending heat
as three cantered from the threadbare wood.

You must leave everything lit
by city light and Damascus light, anything fueled
except by your eyes on these animal bodies.

Species by species, light by light.

As for the tarpan it shall be for you.
A reckoning so slow you aren’t even frightened.



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