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After 14 years as an award-winning art director at Faber & Faber, Charlotte Strick is now a partner in boutique design studio Strick&Williams and art editor of The Paris Review. She also writes about art and design for the likes of The Atlantic and The Huffington Post. We speak to Charlotte at her home and workspace in Brooklyn, NY as The Paris Review’s spring/summer issue is published. Where are you today? Williamsburg, Brooklyn—where I live and work. What can you see from the window?...

Matt Willey is a graphic designer living in Brooklyn, New York. In 2020 he joined the New York office of Pentagram as a partner. Previously he was the art...

The Romans were among the first to develop a written script, and their penmanship was round and even. In the Middle Ages, the price of parchment soared, and handwriting, accordingly, became small and condensed. Years later, in the eighteenth century, elegant handwriting became a sign of refinement. Later still, in the twentieth century, American schools […]

Attention poets, writers, artists, journalists, photographers, and other creative people: Online and print literary magazines are alive and well. Some make it easy to submit work—and they pay in cash.

Issue 209, Summer 2014

“Of course, nothing complicates a love of books like the attempt to build a life around them.”

The Paris Review on Instagram: "“Restless night, what do I do with this desire? The same goes for today, when again I won’t see him. I weep from desire, this all-consuming hunger for him.” To celebrate Annie Ernaux’s Nobel Prize in Literature, we’ve unlocked her 1988 diary entries (which she later used to write Simple Passion), published in issue no. 239 (Spring 2022). Follow the link in bio to read them."

A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City by Edward Chisholm. A gritty look at the world of the Paris restaurant kitchen through the eyes of a waiter.