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Every month, our desks at the Review pile up with dozens of soon-to-be published books, only some of which involve writers we have heard of, or subjects we know anything about. More often, we wind up wi...

In the Lake District, 1994.

Each week, The Paris Review unlocks stories, poems, and interviews for our readers from our archive. This week, we’ve unlocked our

Photograph by Kathleen McNamara.

In the time between his first submission to the Review, in February of last year, and the publication of his short story “Lil Spooky” in our new

Photo by Claire Carusillo.

June 12, 2026

Our shop is in an old service station in a charming alpine town nestled within Utah’s Wasatch Mountains. Here’s the oomph of it: Avery, the only person who works here besides Galen and me, sells coffee in a waiting room we’ve converted into a bar. In the first garage ...

Courtesy of The Jonestown Institute at San Diego State University, via Wikimedia Commons.

From the outset there seemed to be little my...