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75 at 75: Yiyun Li on William Trevor

Posted on Apr 8, 2014
In September 2008 I traveled to East Sussex, England, to listen to William...

92Y / The Paris Review Interview Series: Paul Theroux

Posted on March 24, 2014
I came from a very large family, where I always felt lacking in...

John McPhee: Rising from the Plains

Writing Rising from the Plains, McPhee remarked before his 1989 reading at the Poetry Center, “I got into...

75 at 75: Mark Ford on James Schuyler

Posted on Mar 31, 2014
James Schuyler gave his first-ever public poetry reading on November 15, 1988, when...

Elie Wiesel: In Modern Tales – Remembering and Forgetting

Elie Wiesel: In Hasidism – “Different” Masters

Elie Wiesel: In the Talmud – Rabbi Joshua Ben Levi

Elie Wiesel: In the Bible – The Book of Ruth

92Y / The Paris Review Interview Series: Jan Morris

Posted on March 24, 2014
I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual. I...

75 at 75: Tom Stoppard on Harold Pinter

Posted on Jan 15, 2014
I listened to the recordings of two evenings with Harold Pinter at the...

Jimmy Breslin: Pulitzer Prize Series

In a series co-presented with Newsday, legendary New York journalist Jimmy Breslin shares stories and opinions from a...

Tomas Tranströmer Reads From His Work

Posted on April 15, 2015 To mark Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer’s recent passing, we share this recording of...

Elie Wiesel: In Modern Tales – Twilight

Elie Wiesel: In the Talmud – Strange Masters and Their Strange Adventures

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Saul Bellow: Humboldt’s Gift

I can write a small book more easily than a letter—why is that? “As though I’d stumbled upon...