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“[African-American folklore] is like jazz; there's no inherent problem which prohibits understanding but the assumptions brought to it.”
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5/14 Nathaniel Rich reads at Happy Ending.

5/17 & 5/18 See Paris Review editors at the Philadelphia Book Festival.

5/22 Philip Gourevitch reads at Politics and Prose.

5/31 Tim Winton begins a West Coast reading tour.

In memoriam: Shusha Guppy (1935–2008).

A Paris Review historical mystery.

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

Site redesign: see examples of the old site here and here.

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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 Tomaz Salamun.

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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