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The Paris Review

Summer 2018
Magazine

The Paris Review publishes the best fiction, poetry, art, and essays from new and established voices, and the Writers at Work interviews offer some of the most revealing self-portraits in literature.

JAN MORRIS • In 2016, at age ninety, the Welsh historian and essayist Jan Morris began keeping a diary for the first time. She composed an entry a day (occasionally two) for 188 days, ruminating on history, current affairs, art, and literature alongside matters of old age, love, fellowship, and creature comforts. The following is a selection.

Hilda Hilst • from “TEN OVERTURES TO THE BELOVED”

WAYÉTU MOORE

Five Poems by ‘Antarah ibn Shaddād

BEN MARCUS

LÁSZLÓ KRASZNAHORKAI

Four Poems by Szilárd Borbély

CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA

EDIE FAKE

HILTON ALS

Maureen N. McLane

KATHARINE KILALEA

Iman Mersal

SHRUTI SWAMY

Jana Prikryl

BENJAMIN NUGENT

Sylvie Baumgartel

Kathy Acker’s Library

Two Poems by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

KIESE LAYMON

Michael Robbins

URSULA K. LE GUIN

CONTRIBUTORS


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Languages

English

The Paris Review publishes the best fiction, poetry, art, and essays from new and established voices, and the Writers at Work interviews offer some of the most revealing self-portraits in literature.

JAN MORRIS • In 2016, at age ninety, the Welsh historian and essayist Jan Morris began keeping a diary for the first time. She composed an entry a day (occasionally two) for 188 days, ruminating on history, current affairs, art, and literature alongside matters of old age, love, fellowship, and creature comforts. The following is a selection.

Hilda Hilst • from “TEN OVERTURES TO THE BELOVED”

WAYÉTU MOORE

Five Poems by ‘Antarah ibn Shaddād

BEN MARCUS

LÁSZLÓ KRASZNAHORKAI

Four Poems by Szilárd Borbély

CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA

EDIE FAKE

HILTON ALS

Maureen N. McLane

KATHARINE KILALEA

Iman Mersal

SHRUTI SWAMY

Jana Prikryl

BENJAMIN NUGENT

Sylvie Baumgartel

Kathy Acker’s Library

Two Poems by Rowan Ricardo Phillips

KIESE LAYMON

Michael Robbins

URSULA K. LE GUIN

CONTRIBUTORS


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