The Paris Review #251 - Spring 2025

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya on the Art of Fiction: “Don’t you know my life story by now? I don’t experience fear.”

Margo Jefferson on the Art of Criticism: “I was brought up to move—along with some Negros from Negroland or others who turned out to be just as smart, if not smarter—into Whiteville, to represent the race at its best, as they would say. And, at the same time, to take everything that the white world had to teach us—literary canons, classical music, et cetera—and master it.”

Prose by Amie Barrodale, A. M. Homes, Marie NDiaye, Domenico Starnone, Miriam Toews, and Zheng Zhi.

Poetry by Abigail Dembo, Nora Fulton, Susan Howe, D. A. Powell, Nasser Rabah, Edward Salem, and Nanna Storr-Hansen.

Art by Em Kettner, Agosto Machado, and Lady Shalamar Montague; cover by Anna Weyant.