The Paris Review No. 246, Winter 2024

Louise Glück on the Art of Poetry: “You want a poem to register in every mind the way it did in yours. Then you discover this never happens.”

Yu Hua on the Art of Fiction: “If I’d taken another two or three years to start writing, I’d still be a dentist.”

Prose by Sean Thor Conroe, Ananda Devi, Madeline ffitch, Fiona McFarlane, Jamie Quatro, and Tony Tulathimutte.

Poetry by Angela Ball, Nadja Küchenmeister, Dorothea Lasky, Farid Matuk, Harryette Mullen, Alice Notley, Callie Siskel, and Zheng Xiaoqiong.

Art by Marcius Galan and Claudia Keep.

Cover: Sarah Charlesworth, Candle, 2002, cibachrome print, 41 1⁄2 x 31 1⁄2".