The Paris Review #250 : Winter 2024

Trade paperback.  Hot off the press!!  Prose, poetry, art and interviews to make your brain sing.

Fredric Jameson on the Art of Criticism: “Ideological critique has to end up being a critique of the self. You can’t recognize an ideology unless, in some sense, you see it in yourself.”

Hanif Kureishi on the Art of Fiction: “When I was in hospital in Rome, having the experience of being a paralyzed man nearly dead, my only excitement was in the thought that I could write some of this shit down.”

Gerald Murnane on the Art of Fiction: “A fatal question—what are people reading these days? Never mind what people are reading these days. What should I be writing about is the fundamental question.”

Prose by Dan Bevacqua, Caoilinn Hughes, Silas Jones, Alec Niedenthal, Adania Shibli, and Abdulah Sidran.

Poetry by Sargon Boulus, Egill Skallagrímsson, Rachel Mannheimer, Simone White, and Hua Xi.

Art by Ann Craven, Ala Ebtekar, and Josh Smith; cover by Seth Becker.

Table of Contents

Fiction        

Dan Bevacqua - Daughters        

Caoilinn Hughes - Two Hands        

Silas Jones - Regular Decision        

Alec Niedenthal - Schändung (Desecration)        

Adania Shibli - Camouflage    

Interview        

Fredric Jameson - The Art of Criticism No. 5        

Gerald Murnane - The Art of Fiction No. 266        

Hanif Kureishi - The Art of Fiction No. 265    

Poetry        

Sargon Boulus - There Are Journeys        

Rachel Mannheimer - New Haven        

Rachel Mannheimer - The Car        

Egill Skallagrímsson - from “Cruel Loss of Sons”        

Simone White - hand-to-hand pass        

Hua Xi - Toilet    

Portfolio        

Ann Craven - Moon        

Josh Smith - Dinosaurs    

Cover        

Seth Becker - Issue No. 250 Cover    

Art        

Ala Ebtekar - Nightfall (After Asimov and Emerson) (4)    

Essay        

Abdulah Sidran - Scraps