On the Daily
Behind the Mask of Corruption
By Rich Cohen
A Story for Your Daughters, a Story for Your Sons
By Rebecca MakkaiThe war had closed much of the city, cut off many of the smaller towns.
In the Current Issue, Issue 232
Fiction
Poetry Rx
By Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire SchwartzIn our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Kaveh Akbar is on the line.
Poetry Rx
Cooking with Varlam Shalamov
By Valerie StiversValerie Stivers rises to the challenge of baking Russian rye bread, which appears in nearly all of Varlam Shalamov’s short stories.
The Daily
Eat Your Words
Feminize Your Canon
By The Paris ReviewOur monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors.
Feminize Your Canon
Advertisement
Poets on Couches: Lynn Melnick
By Lynn MelnickLynn Melnick reads a Sharon Olds poem about finding sensuality in unlikely places.
The Daily
Poets on Couches
The Crane Wife
By CJ HauserTen days after I called off my engagement I was supposed to go on a scientific expedition to study the whooping crane on the gulf coast of Texas.
From the Archive, Issue
genre tbd
The Paris Review Podcast Season 2
By The Paris Review and StitcherToni Morrison, Philip Roth, Jason Alexander, Charlotte Rampling, Danez Smith, Sarah Manguso, Salman Rushdie, Molly Ringwald, Jenny Slate, Devendra Banhart, and more
Listen Now
Diary of a Country Mouse
By Jesse BallThursday, 10 December. Giles shows us the sample mice and I am, as if for the first time, overcome with joy. Perhaps when I was a child I had feelings like this—but not in many years. I look, for instance, at a small gray mouse, smaller than the others, and it is as if I am seeing (anything) for the first time. He moves among his neighbors so swiftly and yet without error—as if on a track, as if held up by threads from above that prompt him. For reasons I cannot yet fathom, the edge of t…
