The Paris Review Issue № 238 (Winter 2021)

Gary Indiana on the Art of Fiction: “I’m allergic to the idea of myself as the subject of any of my books. I don’t write them as self-revelation, in the contemporary sense.”

Prose by Annie Baker, Chetna Maroo, Emmanuel Carrère and Sterling HolyWhiteMountain.
Poetry by Tove Ditlevsen, Terrance Hayes, Ben Lerner, Sally Wen Mao, and Eugenio Montale.

Art by  Leilah Babirye, Scott Covert, and Rose Wylie.

"The Paris Review hopes to emphasize creative work—fiction and poetry—not to the exclusion of criticism, but with the aim in mind of merely removing criticism from the dominating place it holds in most literary magazines. […] I think The Paris Review should welcome these people into its pages: the good writers and good poets, the non-drumbeaters and non-axe-grinders. So long as they're good."   -  William Styron, the inaugural issue's stated aim.