Smoking might be banned at book fairs, while one doesn’t expect books to be banned from book fairs. Even if a character in one of the books exhibited at a fair is smoking, this wouldn’t lead to a ban ...

When I first read these poems and was trying to describe them to a friend, I said they felt cosmic, even though they often ...

In the new Spring issue of The Paris Review, we published an Art of Poetry interview with Alice Notley, conducted by Hannah ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Maureen N. McLane’s ...

Emma, as I raced to get down what she said , wished that she could have a note taker for all of her soirées. Haydée thought ...

At its heart, this poem describes a compressed moment in time, put into stark relief by her contemplation of the great ...

My dream was a book that doesn’t exist. It was read aloud to me by a male narrator and illustrated with photo slides. Called August Is Back, it was an autobiography of a glamorous Jewish Italian woman ...

Apocryphal stories would not be worth worrying about if their inventors stuck to the spoken word. What’s a bit of bragging or slander among friends? But when these tales reach print they become ...