His response to Henry’s desire to travel home is a strange mixture of welcome and repulse, a recognition of their sibling ...

A painting in Blair Hobbs’s new exhibition features a cut-out drawing of Flannery O’Connor in a pearl choker and purple ...

"Many years ago, the first and only time I ever did acid, I looked down at my hands and noticed that they were not, in fact, ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Nora Fulton’s poem “ ...

And wylde for to hold, though I seme tame. W.S. MERWIN: I think this is probably the greatest sonnet Wyatt wrote, and I think it's one of the greatest sonnets in English. I've known it for so many ...

I’m tired of lying here. The mountain and the river are not bad.

When I mentioned Ọlábísí Àjàlá to my Yoruba teacher she told me he died a bad death. He also liked women too much. I could tell because I was reading his travel memoirs, An African Abroad, and in them ...

Occasionally, when we were small, our father spoke to us of geography. It’s a short song. Mendez sings the lyrics only once. This is what I hear, which is different from what I see on Genius but is ...

It seemed obvious in planning a number devoted to humor that The Paris Review should approach Harold Bloom, the distinguished Yale academic and critic, author of the recently published The Western ...