Teens Are Forever, and Other News
Samara Scott, Lonely Planet II, Frieze London, 2015, stainless steel, water, mixed media. Image via Sunday Painter/Frieze This year’s Nobel and Booker winners have destabilized the literary prize...
View ArticleAlexia Arthurs Wins Plimpton Prize; Vanessa Davis Wins Terry Southern Prize
The Paris Review’s Spring Revel is coming up—tickets are available here—and our board has chosen the winners of two annual prizes for outstanding contributions to the magazine. It’s with great...
View ArticleSay Hello to the 2017 Whiting Honorees
Honorees clockwise from top left: Phillip B. Williams, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Lisa Halliday, Simone White, Clarence Coo, Clare Barron, Francisco Cantú, James Ijames, Jen Beagin, Tony Tulathimutte. For...
View ArticleHilton Als Wins Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Als in 2005. Photo: Dominique Nabokov, via The New York Review of Books. Congratulations to our advisory editor Hilton Als on his Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. In today’s announcement, the committee...
View ArticlePaper Does the Impossible, and Other News
Photo: Craig Kaplan, via Nautilus. It’s always nice to discover a new use for paper. Sometimes it seems as if all the good ones have been taken. Writing on it, wrapping fragile objects in it, wiping...
View ArticleJamaica Kincaid Will Receive Our 2022 Hadada Award
Jamaica Kincaid. Photo: Kenneth Noland Save the date: on April 12, 2022, The Paris Review will present the Hadada, our annual lifetime achievement award, to Jamaica Kincaid at our Spring Revel. In our...
View ArticleVivian Gornick Will Receive Our 2023 Hadada Award
Vivian Gornick. Photograph by Mitchell Bach. Courtesy of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. “I could hardly believe my luck in having found her,” Vivian Gornick writes of the persona she created for her...
View ArticleThe Paris Review Wins 2023 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize
We are thrilled to announce that The Paris Review has won a 2023 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. The judges wrote: For seventy years and counting, The Paris Review has remained wonderfully...
View ArticleThe Review Wins the 2024 National Magazine Award for Fiction
Illustration by Na Kim. We are thrilled to announce that The Paris Review has won the 2024 ASME Award for Fiction, marking the second year in a row that the magazine has received the honor. The three...
View ArticleAnnouncing the 2024 George Plimpton and Susannah Hunnewell Prizewinners and...
Photograph of Moira McCavana by Mara Danoff; photograph of Caleb Crain by Peter Terzian. We are excited to announce that on April 2, at our Spring Revel, Moira McCavana will receive the George Plimpton...
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