“Hauntedness is a strange experience…I want to try and understand it as it works in myself and as it works in social reality. That’s very hard to do.”

Friends of ‘The Paris Review’ share stories about the poet Richard Howard, who will be honored with this year‘s Hadada Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Rereading Wells Tower’s 2002 story from our archive.

Our Summer issue features Benjamin Nugent’s story “The Treasurer,” which follows Pete, a junior at UMass Amherst, through the aftermath of the initiation ceremony for his being elected treasurer of Gamma House. Before a wide audience of partygo…