
In the Current Issue
In the Current Issue
In the Current Issue
In the Current Issue
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On the Daily
“It was embarrassing that a Gus Van Sant film featured a character whose psychological profile wasn’t that far from Julius’s own.”
The Paris Review promotes the most exciting writers of the day and supports inquisitive readers the world over.
“If anyone has been entertaining doubts that deep-seated prejudice is alive and thriving in the United States, he has only to read the Dec. 9 front page article in The Inquirer.”
“and I would lean in close and tell you that John Wick kills women like / he’s read feminist theory”
“I was learning a language of sex.”
“Life without God’s love is like a donut, ’cause there’s a hole in the middle of your heart!”
“I swam fast toward the rocks—the sting of a jellyfish couldn’t be worse than listening to him go on about his mother.”
“And Cathay was not China. / And Vietnam was not China / Nor made in China—but close enough.”