The Paris Review

The Paris Review
The Paris Review, Issue 1
EditorEmily Stokes
CategoriesArt, culture, interviews, literature
FrequencyQuarterly
First issueSpring, 1953; 71 years ago (1953)
CompanyThe Paris Review Foundation
CountryUnited States
Based inNew York City, U.S. (since 1973)
LanguageEnglish
Websitetheparisreview.org
ISSN0031-2037

The Paris Review is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953[1] by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, The Paris Review published works by Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, Terry Southern, Adrienne Rich, Italo Calvino, Samuel Beckett, Nadine Gordimer, Jean Genet, and Robert Bly.

The Review's "Writers at Work" series includes interviews with Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, Jorge Luis Borges, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Thornton Wilder, Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, William Carlos Williams, and Vladimir Nabokov, among many hundreds of others. Literary critic Joe David Bellamy wrote that the series was "one of the single most persistent acts of cultural conservation in the history of the world."[2]

The headquarters of The Paris Review moved from Paris to New York City in 1973. Plimpton edited the Review from its founding until his death in 2003. Brigid Hughes took over as "executive editor" (she declined to use the title "editor" out of respect for Plimpton)[3] from 2003 to 2005.[4] She was followed by Philip Gourevitch from 2005 to 2010, Lorin Stein from 2010 to 2017,[5] and Emily Nemens from April 2018 until March 2021, when Emily Stokes was named editor.[6][7]

  1. ^ Richard (January 12, 2023). "Top 50 Literary Magazine". EWR. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
  2. ^ Bellamy, Joe David (1995). Literary Luxuries: American writing at the end of the millennium. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-8262-1029-6.
  3. ^ Johnson, Kate (Summer 2004). "A New Editor at the Helm". Northwestern Magazine. Northwestern University. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Hughes was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Itzkoff, Dave (5 March 2010). "Paris Review Names New Editor". The New York Times.
  6. ^ "Announcing the Next Editor of the Paris Review". The Paris Review. 23 March 2021.
  7. ^ Williams, John (2021-03-23). "Paris Review Names New Editor". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-09.