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Prizes Make Books Less Popular, and Other News
“Is the goal so far away? / Far, how far no tongue can say, / Let us dream our dream today.” The worst poems by canonical writers. (Those lines are Tennyson’s—not his finest hour.) On the...
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Prized
We’re pleased to announce that two of our stories have been selected by Jennifer Egan for this year’s Best American Short Stories collection: Benjamin Nugent’s “God,” which appeared in issue 206; and...
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Announcing Our #ReadEverywhere Contest
At the beach. Unless you’ve been living under a rock—or out in the world, pursuing your aestival fantasies instead of reading the Internet—you’ve probably heard about our terrific joint subscription...
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Read Everywhere, Part 7 (or, the Hashtag Wars)
The Paris Review’s Hailey Gates with a remarkably familiar slogan outside the New York Public Library. This week, the New York Public Library launched a campaign to celebrate “the excitement and...
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Fabulous Prizes Await
R & R & TPR in Madison, Connecticut. Photo: Chantal McStay A reminder: through August 31, we’re having a #ReadEverywhere contest to celebrate our joint subscription deal with the London Review...
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Last Chance
The manager of the LRB Cake Shop wandering the world for inspiration in Tokyo’s Narita Airport. This is the final week to enter our #ReadEverywhere contest, celebrating our joint subscription deal with...
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Certificate of Tastelessness
Thomas Bernhard in Portugal, 1986. At this point, we tired of it! Because what happens is, when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in the face after they...
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John Jeremiah Sullivan Wins Windham Campbell Prize
© Harry Taylor Many congratulations to our Southern editor, John Jeremiah Sullivan, for winning one of this year’s Windham Campbell Prizes. The citation calls him “an essayist of astonishing range …...
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Atticus Lish Wins Plimpton Prize; Mark Leyner Wins Terry Southern Prize
Left, Atticus Lish; right, Mark Leyner Each year, at our Spring Revel, the board of The Paris Review awards two prizes for outstanding contributions to the magazine. It is with great pleasure that we...
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Our Latest Pushcart Prize Winners
We’re delighted to announce that three of our contributors have won Pushcart Prizes this year: Zadie Smith, for “Miss Adele Amidst the Corsets,” a story from issue 208; Dorothea Lasky, for her poem...
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#ReadEverywhere Returns
Last year's winning entry, by David Lasry.You’ve probably heard about our joint subscription deal with the London Review of Books—this summer, you can get a year of both magazines for the low price of...
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#ReadEverywhere, All Summer Long
A highly literate dog.If you haven’t heard, this summer we’re offering a joint subscription to The Paris Review and the London Review of Books for just $70 U.S. Everyone is excited about this...
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#ReadEverywhere, Even in the Clouds
Your LRB may be used as a flotation device. It doesn’t grow on trees. It does grow, somehow, in this one garden.This summer we’re offering a joint subscription to The Paris Review and the London Review...
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#ReadEverywhere, Even on Your Wedding Day
Our editor, Lorin Stein, and our contributing editor, Sadie Stein, reading and wedding, wedding and reading.This summer we’re offering a joint subscription to The Paris Review and the London Review of...
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#ReadEverywhere, Even with Expressionist Masterworks
Screamingly good prose.We’ve now entered the final month of our joint subscription deal: get The Paris Review and the London Review of Books for just $70 U.S. Already a Paris Review subscriber? Not a...
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#ReadEverywhere: The Cats Edition
A cat ruminating on Ben Lerner’s piece about disliking poetry.Our joint subscription deal is in its final weeks: through the end of August, get The Paris Review and the London Review of Books for just...
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Only Five Days Left to #ReadEverywhere
Criticism in the corn.Our joint subscription deal is in its final days: you only have five days left to get The Paris Review and the London Review of Books for just $70 U.S. (If you’re already a Paris...
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Today Is the Final Day for Our Joint Subscription Deal
Advisory editor Hailey Gates in the streets of Kinshasa, DR Congo.We understand the urge to procrastinate. Two months ago, when we first announced our joint subscription deal—the one where you get a...
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The Winners of Our 2015 #ReadEverywhere Competition
Remember this summer’s #ReadEverywhere contest, the one we went on and on about? It was a great success. We asked readers to submit pictures of themselves reading The Paris Review or the London Review...
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Prizes That Don’t Start with N
Coltrane in 1963All eyes are on Svetlana Alexievich for her Nobel win, which Philip Gourevitch rightly calls “a long-overdue recognition of reportage as a form of literature equal to fiction, poetry,...
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