"I dreamed that the milkman, the gas man, the newspaper vendor, the baker, and the plumber were all standing in a circle ...

If I am happy, it is because I drank coffee; if I am sad, it is because I drank too much coffee or not enough; if I have a ...

His name is John Brooks Hamby, and he’s the vice chairman of the board of directors for the Colorado River’s largest single ...

Between the beginning and the end of civilization, the Parthenons and the pelting of stones, is the narrow corridor, the spit of land, where writing lives. After disillusion⁠—but just after. And ...

The Winter issue of The Paris Review opens with “Camouflage,” a story by Adania Shibli, the first line of which nudges us, ominously, toward a much broader picture: “We have nothing to do with what’s ...

mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.

And wylde for to hold, though I seme tame. W.S. MERWIN: I think this is probably the greatest sonnet Wyatt wrote, and I think it's one of the greatest sonnets in English. I've known it for so many ...

What is your favorite crime in literature? BORI AKUNIN: "And when the woman saw chat the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant co the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she ...