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Hear Chinua Achebe Discuss Martin Luther King Jr.
Achebe at the fiftieth anniversary of Things Fall Apart. Photo: Angela Radulescu Last week we brought to light a few videos of George Plimpton we’d found on the original version of our Web site, circa...
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No Slouch
The widening gyre of heavy-handed allusions to Yeats’s “The Second Coming.” An undated photo of Yeats by the Bain News Service. A recent Russia Today headline suggests that Europe is “slouching towards...
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No Slouch
We’re away until January 4, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2015. Please enjoy, and have a happy New Year! An undated photo of Yeats by the Bain News Service. The widening gyre of...
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The President Is a Computer, and Other News
President Donald J. Trump, right, with boyhood friend. Does the president pass the Turing test? I’m afraid not. When I listen to his answers to basic questions and compare those answers to a real...
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Great Expectations: An Interview with Ayobami Adebayo
Photo: Pixels Digital Stay with Me, the debut novel by Nigerian Ayobami Adebayo, explores a contemporary marriage in a Yoruba community stubbornly tied to tradition. Despite suspicious in-laws,...
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Cooking with Chinua Achebe
This is the sixth installment of Valerie Stivers’s Eat Your Words column. My winding path as a reader has led me to a personal specialty in Nigerian literature. I know about the country’s civil war...
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Chinua Achebe on Martin Luther King: He Died Too Young
Chinua Achebe In honor of Martin Luther King Jr., we bring you audio from an unused portion of the Art of Fiction No. 139, an interview with Chinua Achebe conducted for issue no. 133 (Winter 1994) of...
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There is No Story That is Not True: An Interview with Toyin Ojih Odutola
What Her Daughter Sees, 2018. “There is no story that is not true,” says Uchendu halfway through Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Storytelling is at the core of Brooklyn-based artist Toyin Ojih...
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Behind the Author’s Photo
Beowulf Sheehan is the master of the literary portrait. His new book, AUTHOR, collects his photographs of two hundred writers, historians, journalists, playwrights, and poets from thirty-five...
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Redux: The One Who Outlives All the Cowards
Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to...
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