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This Tuesday: Paul Beatty and Lorin Stein in Conversation
New Yorkers: join us tomorrow at McNally Jackson, where our editor Lorin Stein will appear in conversation with Paul Beatty. Paul’s new novel, The Sellout, is out now; the Guardian calls it “a...
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Our Thing: An Interview with Paul Beatty
Photo: Hannah Assouline Paul Beatty’s recurring themes—race and tribalism, human psychology, ambition and failure, and the haunting presence of history—are the heavy ones. But he moves through them...
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Paul Beatty Wins National Book Critics Circle’s Fiction Award
Photo: Hannah Assouline Our congratulations to Paul Beatty, whose novel The Sellout won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction yesterday. The New York Times calls The Sellout “a scorching...
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Not That New York Review, and Other News
One of the underground papers from the exhibition “Realize Your Desires.” Congratulations to The Paris Review’s contributors David Means, Ottessa Moshfegh, and David Szalay, all of whom have been...
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In Which Our Writers Do Great Things
Detail from the cover of our new Fall issue, doubling here as a celebratory bouquet. On the shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize are two of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize winners, Ottessa...
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“Happy as Hell,” and Other News
Paul Beatty. With his novel The Sellout, Paul Beatty has become the first American ever to win the Man Booker Prize. “I don’t want to get all dramatic, like writing saved my life … but writing has...
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Roth’s Reading Room, and Other News
A postcard of the Newark Public Library. Today in hometown heroism: Philip Roth, having recovered from yet another year without a Nobel, is donating his book collection to the Newark Public Library....
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Kaboom, and Other News
Stanisław Notariusz, Explosion, 1922. God, I fucking love profanity! Profanity: shit, yes! It sometimes seems to these jaded ears that oaths and cusses are all we have left, the only solace in this...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah Selected for Inaugural One Book, One...
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/obony-winner_1-minute.mp4 We’re delighted to announce that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah is the winner of the first-ever...
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What Our Contributors Are Reading This Spring
Paul Beatty. Photo: Hannah Assouline. No American novelist riffs like Paul Beatty. His superlative novel Slumberland established his comic mastery years before he won the Man Booker Prize in 2016. Set...
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