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The Paris Review Podcast returns with a new season, featuring the best interviews, fiction, essays, and poetry from America’s most legendary literary quarterly, brought to life in sound. Join us for intimate conversations with Sharon Olds and Olga Tokarczuk; fiction by Rivers Solomon, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, and Zach Williams; poems by Terrance Hayes and Maggie Millner; nonfiction by Robert Glück, Jean Garnett, and Sean Thor Conroe; and performances by George Takei, Lena Waithe, and many others. Catch up on earlier seasons, and listen to the trailer for Season 4 now.
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Inside the Issue | “God’s Arrow” by Shuang Xuetao
The actor Ken Leung reads “God’s Arrow” from issue no. 256 (Summer 2026), written by Shuang Xuetao and translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang—a time-bending chronicle of gods and dogs, mothers and sons, set against the turbulent backdr
Inside the Issue | “I Don’t Do Innocents: A Radio Play in One Act” by Anne Carson
A special production of Anne Carson’s “I Don’t Do Innocents," which first appeared in issue no. 253 (Fall 2025). Produced by Complicité for The Paris Review, directed by Simon McBurney, and featuring Carson herself reading the stage directi
Inside the Issue | "My Life, By Barbara Rosenberg," by Jordy Rosenberg
Jordy Rosenberg reads his story “My Life, by Barbara Rosenberg,” from issue no. 253 (Fall 2025), told from the perspective of Barbara, a mother from Brooklyn who is ready to battle a corduroy blazer and the child who wants to wear it freely
Personals | “I Got Snipped”
Joseph Earl Thomas reads his essay “I Got Snipped: Notes after a Vasectomy,” about the best sexual decision he ever made. This episode was produced by John DeLore and Helena de Groot, and was mixed by John DeLore. Our theme song for this se
Personals | "Two Strip Clubs, Paris and New Hampshire"
Lisa Carver reads an essay about visiting two strip clubs with her French husband: first the Moulin Rouge, then a dive bar in Bedford, New Hampshire. At the Moulin Rouge, she has a revelation: “Even though the women had naked boobies, they
Personals | “Wax and Gold and Gold," by Mihret Sibhat
Mihret Sibhat reads her essay “Wax and Gold and Gold,” about a friendship she formed with a prostitute in Addis Ababa while attempting to teach her about Jesus. This episode was produced by John DeLore and Helena de Groot, and was mixed by
Personals | “What I Want to Say About Owning a Truck,” by J. D. Daniels
“When people see your truck, they tend to see what you can do for them,” J. D. Daniels writes in his essay about a black Nissan hardbody pickup he owned many years ago. This episode was produced by John DeLore and Helena de Groot, and was m
Personals | “The Smoker,” by Ottessa Moshfegh
Ottessa Moshfegh reads her essay “The Smoker,” about renovating a house soaked in nicotine—and a haunting encounter with its former owner. This episode was produced by John DeLore and Helena de Groot, and was mixed by Helena de Groot. Our t
Trailer: The Paris Review presents "Personals," a new audio series
“Personals” is a new audio series from The Paris Review, featuring writers reading first-person essays. Featuring essays from Ottessa Moshfegh, Mihret Sibhat, Joseph Earl Thomas, Lisa Carver, and J.D. Daniels. The series is produced by Soph
S4E12 | Concerning the Future of Souls, by Joy Williams
The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams reads entries from “Concerning the Future of Souls” (issue no. 247, Spring 2024), a collection of stories following Azrael, the angel of death and transporter of souls. This e
S4E11 | Trial Run
In Zach Williams’s “Trial Run” (issue no. 239, Spring 2022), an employee is subjected to two coworkers’ conspiracy theories when their office is targeted by an anonymous white supremacist hacker. The story is read by Michael Chernus, Danny
S4E10 | Foley’s Pond
“We were thirteen and conspiratorial and what was said is now out of reach.” Jim Fletcher reads Peter Orner’s “Foley’s Pond” (issue no. 202, Fall 2012), a quietly devastating short story about the effects of a tragic accident on a boy and h
S4E9 | “The Victim” by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
The legendary actor George Takei reads one of the oldest stories in the Review’s archive. Published by the magazine in 1957, “The Victim (https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/4872/the-victim-junichiro-tanizaki)” is Ivan Morris’s English t
S4E8 | The Walk Book
Sean Thor Conroe shares entries from “The Walk Book”—his meticulous, funny travelogue about his 2014 attempt to walk across the United States—including some rain-soaked field recordings. This episode was produced by Helena de Groot and John
S4E7 | Olga Tokarczuk’s Divine Cosmos
The Nobel Prize–winning Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk discusses the souls of animals, discovering feminism, and her home in the village of Krajanów where she was once neighbors with “three different translators of William Blake in an excerpt
S4E6 | About Ed
“We needed erotic touch to tell us what we were.” Robert Glück reads from About Ed (https://theparisreview.org/miscellaneous/7896/about-ed-robert-gluck), a memoir about his relationship with his former partner Ed Aulerich-Sugai. The perform
S4E5 | Scenes from an Open Marriage
“Nothing reifies a romance like proximate disaster.” Seated at her kitchen table, Jean Garnett reads her essay “Scenes from an Open Marriage (https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/06/29/scenes-from-an-open-marriage/)” and chats with the
S4E4 | Bob Ross Paints Your Portrait
“The only colors we’re going to use will be blacker than most blacks. Mm-kay.” Terrance Hayes reads his poem, “Bob Ross Paints Your Portrait (https://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/7883/bob-ross-paints-your-portrait-terrance-hayes).” An homa
S4E3 | The I is Made of Paper
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that "women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from herArt of Poetry (https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/8000/the-art-of-poetry
S4E2 | The Same IKEA Bed
A stealth poetry reading inside a bustling IKEA. Poet Maggie Millner reads her own poem (https://www.theparisreview.org/poetry/7855/from-couplets-maggie-millner) (Issue no. 239, Spring 2022), as well as two more from the archive: Toi Derico
S4E1 | “This is Everything There Will Ever Be” by Rivers Solomon
Actor, producer, and screenwriter Lena Waithe reads Rivers Solomon’s “This Is Everything There Will Ever Be (https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/7963/this-is-everything-there-will-ever-be-rivers-solomon),” which was published in issue no
Season 4 Trailer: The Paris Review Podcast
The Paris Review Podcast returns with a new season on November 15, 2023. Selections of interviews, fiction, essays, and poetry from America’s most legendary literary quarterly, brought to life in sound. Catch up now on earlier seasons & the
S3E5 | A Strange Way to Live (with Phoebe Bridgers, Connor Ratliff, Joan Didion, Natalie-Scenters Zapico, Bud Smith, Jericho Brown, Jessica Hecht, Avery Trufelman)
Our Season 3 finale opens with “The Trick Is to Pretend (https://urldefense.com/v3/%20__https://theparisreview.org/poetry/7393/the-trick-is-to-pretend-natalie-scenters-zapico__%20;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!Yd5gmnz3oSGEvCXkkinNAdcuvSm_ek-ucpntw_nSiZO
S3E4 | Form and Formlessness (with Rachel Cusk, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Allan Gurganus, Deborah Landau)
In an essay specially commissioned for the podcast, Aisha Sabatini Sloan describes rambling around Paris with her father, Lester Sloan, a longtime staff photographer for Newsweek, and a glamorous woman who befriends them. In an excerpt from
S3E3 | Without Malice, Without Triumph (with Edward P Jones, Hilton Als, Amber Gray)
This episode focuses exclusively on the work of fiction writer Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Known World and All Aunt Hagar’s Children, and subject of the Art of Fiction no. 222 (https://urldefense.com/v3/%20__https:
S3E2 | A Gift for Burning (with Monica Youn, Molly McCully Brown, Venita Blackburn, George Saunders)
George Saunders, in an excerpt from his Art of Fiction interview (https://urldefense.com/v3/%20__https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7506/the-art-of-fiction-no-245-george-saunders__%20;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!Ih4NSODKsvbQD7eG-61tLHFGy4ztakXV
S3E1 | A Memory of the Species (with Robert Frost, Yohanca Delgado, Antonella Anedda)
Robert Frost defines modern poetry in an excerpt from his [Art of Poetry interview](https://urldefense.com/v3/ https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4678/the-art-of-poetry-no-2-robert-frost ;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!La9JzfrCxrTLTJC-BUCjhUWQaEI9
Season 3 Trailer: The Paris Review Podcast Returns
The celebrated podcast returns for its third season. Join us on an audio odyssey through the pages of The Paris Review, featuring the best fiction, poetry, interviews, and archival recordings, from the world's most legendary literary quarte
Celebrating N. Scott Momaday
A special bonus episode of The Paris Review Podcast celebrating N. Scott Momaday, the winner of the Review’s 2021 Hadada Award, which recognizes a distinguished member of the writing community who has made a strong and unique contribution t
A Tree Grows Live in Brooklyn (A Live Recording at On Air Fest 2020)
A special bonus episode, recorded live at On Air Fest (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__onairfest.com_&d=DwMFaQ&c=aLv4kG3eFBuAUFgZFQ07JQ&r=Y_euPyYCdjaSCAzhF8RFR6D7wcKX2TVWojZY3F763h8&m=bGHvoOY2qqXhHklJJqCn7v7Lh2qE-nkfoqu4
