The Secrets We Kept (2019), by Lara Prescott
What, I wonder, does a reputable book publisher like Knopf do, when they’ve p...
Books
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free (2018), by Andrew Miller
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free is my first online review of a novel by Englis...
The Glass Hotel (2020), by Emily St John Mandel
I’ve been having a bit of a binge on the M shelf: nothing to make a serious d...
Today I Have Very Strong Feelings
Manuel C., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. A month ago, Gianni Infantino...
Kafka’s Diaries, 1911
Franz Kafka’s notebook, National Library at Givat Ram, Jerusalem. Public doma...
On Mel Bochner and Sophie Calle
Mel Bochner, Bochner, Die, 2004, acrylic and oil on canvas, 60 x 80″. Courtes...
The Bookseller of Florence (2021), by Ross King
No, this isn’t a review of an historical novel. The Bookseller of Florence is...
The Woman Upstairs (2013), by Claire Messud
All those of us who haunt the Op Shops know the feeling… that title that beck...
Iris (2022), by Fiona Kelly McGregor
Fiona Kelly McGregor is, according to her website a cross-disciplinary author...
LSD Snowfall: An Interview with Uman
Uman, Snowfall: winter in Roseboom #4, 2016–2020 (detail). The Paris Review‘s...
What the Paris Review Staff Read in 2022
From Mary Manning’s portfolio Ciao! in issue no. 242. The sadness of thinking...
The Blackstairs Mountains
Illustration by Na Kim. In the new Winter issue of The Paris Review, Belinda ...
“Security in the Void”: Rereading Ernst Jünger
Ernst Jünger (second from right), via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY...
Wandering with Intent (2022), by Kim Mahood
Kim Mahood is one of our most interesting thinkers about the interface betwee...
Sweeney and the Bicycles (2022), by Philip Salom
After his foray into coastal Victoria in The Fifth Season, (2020, click here ...
Letter from the Review’s New Poetry Editor
As a new member of the Review’s team, it gives me great pleasure to bring yo...
Education
Don’t Forget to Breathe
By James Prescott-Kerr When you’re abroad and know you have limited time in ...
