Paris Review Issue 196: Spring 2011 - Tapa blanda

The Paris Review is the finest literary magazine of the moment, a great contradiction of the prevailing gloom over the status of literature in contemporary life, and its arrival in these islands is an event that calls loud hurrahs * * John Banville * * The Paris Review is one of the few truly essential literary magazines of the twentieth century - and now of the twenty-first. Frequently weird, always wonderful * * Margaret Atwood * *

The Paris Review is a groundbreaking publication bringing together fiction, poetry and prose from great writers all over the world. Its legendary interview series alone represents the single most important body of work that celebrates writing about writing. Publishing quarterly, each issue is a tribute to the possibilities of the written word and under Lorin Stein's canny editorial leadership it looks set to continue and expand on what it has achieved in its illustrious life to date.