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Henry Miller
“I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it. In other words, obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.”
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NEWS & EVENTS
In memoriam: Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008). Click here to read his poem from issue 51.

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.”

New books from The Paris Review.

A Paris Review historical mystery.

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

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SPECIAL PREVIEW FROM THE FALL ISSUE
In her Art of Fiction interview, Marilynne Robinson talks about John Cheever, Richard Dawkins, Emily Dickinson, John Calvin, and her new novel Home.

Click here to read “Connie Bronson,” a short story by Robinson from Summer/Fall 1986 issue.


SUMMER ISSUE AVAILABLE NOW


Umberto Eco on the art of fiction.

Liao Yiwu reports from the Sichuan earthquake.

A series of six new sestets by Charles Wright.

Memories of an unusual friendship from Paula Fox.

New fiction from Karl Taro Greenfeld, Alistair Morgan, and Glen Pourciau.

A dispatch from Philip Connors, a fire lookout charged with spotting the next dangerous blaze.

Plus seventy years of complaint letters sent to the mayor of New York, poetry by Katy Lederer and Matthew Zapruder, and the city reflected through the camera lens of Vijay Balakrishnan.

TPR in The New York Times: Click here to read a review of Liao Yiwu's book The Corpse Walker, featuring encounters first published in The Paris Review.




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

Time Is a Graceless Enemy, but Purls as It Comes and Goes
Charles Wright

I'm winding down. The daylight is winding down.
                                                   Only the night is wound up tight.
And ticking with unpaused breath.
Sweet night, sweet, steady, reliable, uncomplicated night.

September moon, two days from full,
                                                   slots up from the shouldered hill.
There is no sound as the moon slots up, no thorns in its body.
Invisible, the black gondola floats
                                      through down-lid and drowning stars.



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