The Paris Review #246 : Winter 2023

Trade paperback.  Hot off the press!!  Prose, poetry, art and interviews to make your brain sing. Louise Glück on the Art of Poetry: “You want a poem to register in every mind the way it did in yours. Then you discover this never happens.”Yu Hua on the Art of Fiction: “If I’d taken another two or three years to start writing, I’d still be a dentist.”Prose by Ananda Devi, Fiona McFarlane, and Sean Thor Conroe.Poetry by Harryette Mullen, Alice Notley, and Farid Matuk.Art by Marcius Galan and Claudia Keep, and cover by Sarah Charlesworth. ----- Table of Contents      Fiction Ananda Devi -- Ice Blue Madeline ffitch -- Stump of the World Fiona McFarlane -- Hostess Jamie Quatro -- Two Men, Mary Tony Tulathimutte -- Ahegao     Interview Yu Hua -- The Art of Fiction No. 261 Louise Glück -- The Art of Poetry No. 115 Poetry Angela Ball -- Hares Nadja Küchenmeister -- feathers and planets Nadja Küchenmeister -- black laundry Zheng Xiaoqiong -- Water Becomes Water Dorothea Lasky -- Mother Farid M