* One of the few truly essential literary magazines of the twentieth century - and now of the twenty-first. Frequently weird, always wonderful -- Margaret Atwood

he Paris Review is a groundbreaking publication bringing together fiction, poetry and prose from great writers all over the world. Its legendary interview series alone represents the single most important body of work that celebrates writing about writing. Publishing quarterly, each issue is a tribute to the possibilities of the written word and under Lorin Stein's canny editorial leadership it looks set to continue and expand on what it has achieved in its illustrious life to date. This edition includes: Fiction by Ottessa Moshfegh, Jenny Offill, J. D. Daniels, Nell Freudenberger, Rachel Cusk, Lydia Davis and Ben Jahn, the winner of the NPR Three-Minute Fiction Contest: Interviews with Geoff Dyer and Edward P. Jones: Poetry by Kevin Prufer, Susan Stewart, Hilda Hilst, Charlie Smith, Monica Youn, Sylvie Baumgartel, Emily Moore and Linda Pastan: a Portfolio of photographic nudes by Chuck Close