The Paris Review #244 : Summer 2023

Trade paperback.  Hot off the press!!  Prose, poetry, art and interviews to make your brain sing. John Keene on the Art of Fiction: “What my countereducation said at a very basic level was, You have value. Black people around the world are the center, they’re not the margin.”Sharon Olds on the Art of Poetry: “If I had to choose between a poem being therapeutic and it being a better poem, I’d want it to be a better poem.”Prose by Caleb Crain, Lydia Davis, Rachel B. Glaser, James Lasdun, Juliana Leite, Diane Oliver, and Jamie Quatro.Poetry by Leopoldine Core, Richie Hofmann, Imani Elizabeth Jackson, Jessica Laser, Lewis Meyers, Mirta Rosenberg, Jonathan Thirkield.Art by Margot Bergman and Jameson Green. Cover: Emilie Louise Gossiaux, London with Ribbon, 2022, ballpoint pen on paper.  ----- Table of Contents      Fiction         Caleb Crain -- The Letter         Rachel B. Glaser -- Dead Woman         James Lasdun -- Helen         Juliana Leite -- My Good Friend         Diane Oliver -- “No