Antique friendly robot. Photograph by Thomas Quine, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY 2.0. Read the first ...

Ingmar Bergman spareness, your love of astrological signs, fluted lines, specific and sharp as stalactites in the cave of ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages.

It’s free money,” I told my friend during a subway ride. “It’s as easy as watching TV in your head or playing with dolls.” ...

Yan Lianke’s story “ Plants, Stones, Dirt, and Sky ,” translated by Jeremy Tiang, appears in the Fall 2025 issue of The Paris Review.

A few months ago, as a result of the strange, hazy possession that occurs while sitting in front of the laptop screen, I “found myself”—a phrase I’ve disliked ever since I read a tweet by Elisa ...

“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Be better than yourself.” Dean Faulkner Wells, who has put down here William Faulkner’s ghost story “The Werewolf” as he told ...