''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language
literary magazine established in
Paris
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in 1953 by
Harold L. Humes,
Peter Matthiessen
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, and
George Plimpton
George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American writer. He is widely known for his sports writing and for helping to found ''The Paris Review'', as well as his patrician demeanor and accent. He was also known for " ...
. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published works by
Jack Kerouac,
Philip Larkin
Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of poetry, ''The North Ship'', was published in 1945, followed by two novels, ''Jill'' (1946) and ''A Girl in Winter'' (1947 ...
,
V. S. Naipaul
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,
Philip Roth,
Terry Southern
Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to ...
,
Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Cecile Rich ( ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the ...
,
Italo Calvino
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,
Samuel Beckett,
Nadine Gordimer,
Jean Genet, and
Robert Bly.
The ''Review''s "Writers at Work" series includes interviews with
Ezra Pound,
Ernest Hemingway,
T. S. Eliot,
Jorge Luis Borges
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,
Ralph Ellison,
William Faulkner
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,
Thornton Wilder,
Robert Frost,
Pablo Neruda,
William Carlos Williams
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In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pedia ...
, and
Vladimir Nabokov
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, among many hundreds of others. Literary critic
Joe David Bellamy
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called the series "one of the single most persistent acts of cultural conservation in the history of the world."
The headquarters of ''The Paris Review'' moved from
Paris
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to
New York City
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in 1973. Plimpton edited the ''Review'' from its founding until his death in 2003.
Brigid Hughes took over as "executive editor" (she declined to use the title "editor" out of respect for Plimpton)
from 2003 to 2005.
She was followed by
Philip Gourevitch from 2005 to 2010,
Lorin Stein
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from 2010 to 2017, and
Emily Nemens from April 2018 until March 2021, when Emily Stokes was named editor.
History
An editorial statement, penned in the inaugural issue by
William Styron, stated the magazine's aim:
''The Paris Review'' hopes to emphasize creative work—fiction and poetry—not to the exclusion of criticism, but with the aim in mind of merely removing criticism from the dominating place it holds in most literary magazines. ��I think ''The Paris Review'' should welcome these people into its pages: the good writers and good poets, the non-drumbeaters and non-axe-grinders. So long as they're good.
The ''Review''s founding editors include Humes, Matthiessen, Plimpton,
William Pène du Bois
William Sherman Pène du Bois (May 9, 1916 – February 5, 1993) was an American writer and illustrator of books for young readers. He is best known for ''The Twenty-One Balloons'', published in April 1947 by Viking Press, for which he won the 194 ...
,
Thomas Guinzburg and
John P. C. Train. The first publisher was
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan. Du Bois, the magazine's first art editor, designed the iconic ''Paris Review'' eagle to include both American and French significance: an American eagle holding a pen and wearing a
Phrygian cap.
The magazine's first office was located in a small room of the publishing house
Éditions de la Table ronde. Other notable locations of ''The Paris Review'' include a Thames River
grain carrier anchored on the Seine from 1956 to 1957. The Café de Tournon in the
Rue de Tournon on the
Rive Gauche
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was the meeting place for staffers and writers, including du Bois, Plimpton, Matthiessen,
Alexander Trocchi,
Christopher Logue
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Life
Born in Portsmouth, ...
and
Eugene Walter
Eugene Ferdinand Walter, Jr. (November 30, 1921 – March 29, 1998) was an American screenwriter, poet, short-story author, actor, puppeteer, gourmet chef, cryptographer, translator, editor, costume designer and well-known raconteur. During his y ...
.
The first-floor and basement rooms in Plimpton's
72nd Street apartment became the headquarters of ''The Paris Review'' when the magazine moved from
Paris
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to
New York City
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in 1973.
Brigid Hughes took over as editor following Plimpton's death in 2003; her last issue was March 2005. She was succeeded by
Philip Gourevitch in spring 2005.
Under Gourevitch's leadership, the ''Review'' began incorporating more nonfiction pieces and, for the first time, began regularly publishing a photography spread. ''The Paris Review'' also announced, in 2006, the publication of a four-volume set of ''Paris Review'' interviews. ''The Paris Review Interviews, Volumes I–IV'' were published by
Picador from 2006 to 2009. Gourevitch announced his departure in the fall of 2009, citing a desire to concentrate more fully on his writing.
In 2007, an article published by ''
The New York Times
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'' supported the claim that founding editor Matthiessen was in the
CIA but stated that the magazine was used as a cover, rather than a collaborator, for his spying activities. In a May 27, 2008 interview with
Charlie Rose, Matthiessen stated that he "invented ''The Paris Review'' as cover" for his CIA activities. Matthiessen maintained that the ''Review'' was not part of the
Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), an organization used by the CIA to sponsor an array of literary magazines; but the record shows ''The Paris Review'' benefited financially from selling article reprints to CCF magazines.
Lorin Stein was named editor of ''The Paris Review'' in April 2010. He oversaw a redesign of the magazine's print edition and its website, both of which were met with critical acclaim.
In September 2010, the ''Review'' made available online its entire archive of interviews.
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"Paris Review Editor Frees Menagerie of Wordsmiths"
in ''The New York Times
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''. On December 6, 2017, Stein resigned amid an internal investigation into his sexual misconduct toward women he worked with at the magazine.
In October 2012, ''The Paris Review'' published an anthology, ''Object Lessons,'' comprising a selection of twenty short stories from ''The Paris Reviews archive, each with an introduction by a contemporary author. Contributors include
Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American novelist and short story writer. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: ''The Virgin Suicides'' (1993), ''Middlesex'' (2002), and'' The Marriage Plot'' ...
(with an introduction to a story by
Denis Johnson),
Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, who often writes short (one or two pages long) short stories. Davis has produced several new translations of ...
(with an introduction to a story by
Jane Bowles), and
Ali Smith (with an introduction to a story by
Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, who often writes short (one or two pages long) short stories. Davis has produced several new translations of ...
).
On October 8, 2012, the magazine launched its app for the
iPad
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and
iPhone. Developed b
Atavist the app includes access to new issues, back issues, and archival collections from its fiction and poetry sections—along with the complete interview series and the Paris Review Daily.
In November 2015, ''The Paris Review'' published its first anthology of new writing since 1964, ''The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from The Paris Review,'' including writing by well-established authors like
Zadie Smith,
Ben Lerner
Benjamin S. Lerner (born February 4, 1979) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and critic. He has been a Fulbright Scholar, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the National Bo ...
, and
John Jeremiah Sullivan, as well as emerging writers like
Emma Cline,
Ottessa Moshfegh
Ottessa Charlotte Moshfegh (; born May 20, 1981) is an American author and novelist. Her debut novel, ''Eileen'' (2015), won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and was a fiction finalist for the National Boo ...
,
Alexandra Kleeman
Alexandra Kleeman (born 1986) is an American writer. Winner of the 2020 Rome Prize, her work has been reviewed in ''The New York Times'', ''The Guardian'', ''Vanity Fair (magazine), Vanity Fair'', ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue'', and the ''Los Angele ...
, and
Angela Flournoy.
In late 2021, for the first issue with Stokes as editor-in-chief and Na Kim as art director, the journal was given a redesign by Matt Willey of Pentagram that hearkened back to the look that it had in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with a minimalist style, a cover with a sans serif font and a great deal of white space, a smaller trim size, and paper that was physically softer.
Emerging writers
The ''Review'' has published several emerging writers who have gone to notable careers, including
Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Cecile Rich ( ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the ...
, Naipaul,
Philip Roth,
T. Coraghessan Boyle,
Mona Simpson,
Edward P. Jones and
Rick Moody
Hiram Frederick Moody III (born October 18, 1961) is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel ''The Ice Storm'', a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 19 ...
. Selections from
Samuel Beckett's novel ''
Molloy'' appeared in the fifth issue. The magazine was also among the first to recognize the work of
Jack Kerouac with the publication of his short story, "The Mexican Girl", in 1955. Other works which made their first appearance in ''The Paris Review'' include
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino (, also , ;. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012. 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best known works include the '' Our Ancestors'' trilogy (1952–1959), the ''Cosmicomi ...
's ''Last Comes the Raven'', Philip Roth's ''
Goodbye Columbus
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'',
Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme (April 7, 1931 – July 23, 1989) was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the ''Houston Post'', was managing ...
's ''Alice'',
Jim Carroll
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's ''
The Basketball Diaries'', Matthiessen's ''Far Tortuga'',
Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American novelist and short story writer. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: ''The Virgin Suicides'' (1993), ''Middlesex'' (2002), and'' The Marriage Plot'' ...
's ''
The Virgin Suicides
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'', and
Jonathan Franzen's ''
The Corrections
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''.
Aisha Sabatini Sloan
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is an emerging writer with a monthly column, "Detroit Archives". The series explores her family history through iconic landmarks in Detroit.
Interviews
An interview with
E. M. Forster
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— an acquaintance of Plimpton's from his days at
King's College, Cambridge — became the first in a long series of author interviews, now known as the ''Writers at Work'' series.
Prints and posters
In 1964, ''The Paris Review'' initiated a series of prints and posters by contemporary artists with the goal of establishing an ongoing relationship between the worlds of writing and art
[The Paris Review Print Series](_blank)
The Paris Review.—
Drue Heinz, then publisher of ''The Paris Review'', shared credit with
Jane Wilson for initiating the series. In the half century since its inception, the series has featured notable New York artists of the postwar decades, including
Louise Bourgeois,
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning (; ; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter El ...
,
David Hockney,
Helen Frankenthaler,
Keith Haring
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,
Robert Indiana,
Jimmy Ernst,
Alex Katz,
Ellsworth Kelly
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,
Sol LeWitt,
Roy Lichtenstein,
Robert Motherwell,
Louise Nevelson
Louise Nevelson (September 23, 1899 – April 17, 1988) was an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures.
Born in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Kyiv Oblast ...
,
Claes Oldenburg
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,
Robert Rauschenberg,
Larry Rivers
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,
James Rosenquist
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,
Ed Ruscha
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and
Andy Warhol.
The series, suspended after George Plimpton's death in 2003, was relaunched in 2012 with a print by
Donald Baechler
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Early life and education
Baechler was born in Hartford, ...
.
Prizes
Three prizes are awarded annually by the editors of ''The Paris Review'': the ''Paris Review Hadada'', the ''
Plimpton Prize
The Plimpton Prize is an annual award of $10,000 given by ''The Paris Review'' to a previously unpublished or emerging author who has written a work of fiction that was recently published in its publication.
The award was named in honor of longtim ...
'', and the ''Terry Southern Prize for Humor''. Winning selections are celebrated at the annual
Spring Revel. No application form is required. Instead, winners are selected from the stories and poems published the previous year in ''The Paris Review''.
*The ''Paris Review Hadada'': a bronze statuette to be "awarded annually to a distinguished member of the literary community who has demonstrated a strong and unique commitment to literature". The award may go to a writer, reader, editor, publisher, publication, or organization. Past winners include
Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid (; born May 25, 1949) is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in St. John's, Antigua (part of the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda). She lives in North Bennington, Vermo ...
,
John Ashbery,
Joan Didion
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,
Norman Mailer,
Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher and CIA Operative. A co-founder of the literary magazine ''The Paris Review'', he was the only writer to have won the Nation ...
,
George Plimpton
George Ames Plimpton (March 18, 1927 – September 25, 2003) was an American writer. He is widely known for his sports writing and for helping to found ''The Paris Review'', as well as his patrician demeanor and accent. He was also known for " ...
,
Barney Rosset
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,
William Styron,
Philip Roth,
James Salter,
Paula Fox
Paula Fox (April 22, 1923 – March 1, 2017) was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. For her contributions as a children's writer she won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978, the ...
,
Frederick Seidel,
Norman Rush,
Errol Morris,
Edward Hirsch,
Joy Williams, and
Fran Lebowitz.
* The ''
Plimpton Prize
The Plimpton Prize is an annual award of $10,000 given by ''The Paris Review'' to a previously unpublished or emerging author who has written a work of fiction that was recently published in its publication.
The award was named in honor of longtim ...
'': $10,000 (and an engraved ostrich egg) awarded for the best work of fiction or poetry by an emerging or previously unpublished writer. Recent winners include Caitlin Horrocks,
Wells Tower, Alistair Morgan, Jesse Ball,
Emma Cline, and Benjamin Percy.
* The ''Terry Southern Prize for Humor'': a $5,000 award honoring work from either ''The Paris Review'' or ''The Paris Review Daily'' that embodies the qualities of humor, wit, and
sprezzatura
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. The prize is given in memory of longtime contributor
Terry Southern
Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to ...
.
Spring Revel
The ''Paris Review'' Spring Revel is an annual gala held in celebration of American writers and writing. The Revel "brings together leading figures and patrons of American arts and letters from throughout New York to pay tribute to distinguished writers at different stages of their careers".
Proceeds from the Spring Revel go directly toward The Paris Review Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established by the co-founders in 2000 to ensure the future of ''The Paris Review''.
The 2010 Spring Revel took place on April 13, 2010 and presented
Philip Roth with the Hadada.
The 2011 Spring Revel took place on April 12, 2011, chaired by Yves-André Istel and Kathleen Begala.
Robert Redford presented the Hadada to
James Salter. The 2011 Revel also featured
Ann Beattie
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presenting the Plimpton Prize for Fiction and
Fran Lebowitz presenting the inaugural Terry Southern Prize for Humor.
The 2012 Spring Revel took place on April 3, 2012 and presented
Robert Silvers
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Raised on Long Island, New York, Silvers graduated from the University of Chicago ...
with the Hadada.
The 2013 Spring Revel took place on April 9, 2013 and presented
Paula Fox
Paula Fox (April 22, 1923 – March 1, 2017) was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. For her contributions as a children's writer she won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978, the ...
with the Hadada.
The 2014 Spring Revel took place on April 8, 2014 and presented
Frederick Seidel with the Hadada.
The 2015 Spring Revel took place on April 7, 2015 and presented
Norman Rush with the Hadada.
The 2016 Spring Revel took place on April 5, 2016 and
Errol Morris presented
Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, who often writes short (one or two pages long) short stories. Davis has produced several new translations of ...
with the Hadada.
The 2017 Spring Revel took place on April 4, 2017 and
Edward Hirsch presented poet and former poetry editor for the Paris Review,
Richard Howard
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with the Hadada.
The 2018 Spring Revel honored
Joy Williams with the Hadada, presented by
John Waters
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.
The 2019 Spring Revel took place on April 2, 2019 and
Fran Lebowitz presented
Deborah Eisenberg
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Early life
Eisenberg was born in Winnetka, Illinois. Her family is Jewish. She grew up in su ...
with the Hadada.
References
External links
*
"Does ''The Paris Review'' Get a Second Act?"in ''The New York Times'', February 2005
"George Plimpton and ''The Paris Review'': Famed Literary Journal Celebrates 50th Anniversary"on
NPR
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, August 2003.
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