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What Bloggers Owe Montaigne
Portrait of Michel de Montaigne, c. 1570 The weekend newspapers are full of them. Our computer screens are full of them. They go by different names—columns, opinion pieces, diaries, blogs—but personal...
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A Routine Matter
Benjamin Franklin’s daily schedule. I recently turned thirty, the age by which, according to William James, “the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.” But he wrote that in 1890,...
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Notes from a Bookshop: May, or Do Your Thing
Nothing is ever over in a place like this, which is one Of the reasons why people come to look at it. As an Exhibit the waterfall is naturally unsurpassed: part of Its fascination must be in the way...
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Introducing Our Fall Issue!
Since 1953, a central mission of The Paris Review has been the discovery of new voices. Why? It’s not just a matter of wanting to lead the pack or provide publishers with fresh blood. In “The Poet”...
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Please Hire Walt Whitman, and Other News
The guy needs a job. Portrait of Whitman by Thomas Eakins, 1887. In 1847, Charles Dickens founded a “home for homeless women”: he “flung himself into organizing every detail of it, from the food to the...
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The Machinery of the Universe
Poe’s vision of the cosmos and the art it inspired. Alfred Jensen, Physical Optics, 1975, oil on canvas, 7’2″ x 12’9″. Image via Pace Gallery Since adolescence, Edgar Allan Poe had been picking fights...
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Songs of Myself
Hosting a national blurb contest. Walt Whitman, the “American bard,” who was named after a shopping mall in Huntington, New York, where I grew up, is often credited with having invented the book blurb....
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Troubler of the House
McLean Asylum for the Insane. On September 14, 1838, the precociously gifted twenty-three-year-old poet Jones Very was removed under mysterious circumstances from his post as a Greek tutor at Harvard....
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Delivering Packages to the Afterworld, and Other News
Jizo statues at Zōjō-ji Temple in Tokyo. Photo: Jakub Hałun Mainly writers are paid for cleaning your gutters, vacuuming under the seats in your car, and standing in line for you at the DMV. But...
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