Elias Khoury’s “This Is Not Beirut” in The Paris Review
Elias Khoury, author of Gate of the Sun, White Masks, and As Though She Were Sleeping, responds in The Paris Review Daily to the recent explosion in Beirut that has killed over 150 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless. Read “This
Translating Knausgaard: An Interview with Don Bartlett
Meet Karl Ove Knausgaard's translator Don Bartlett, interviewed by Scott Esposito for The Paris Review. When did you first encounter My Struggle? I went to a panel discussion in London with three Norwegian writers, led by someone I knew was clued up on Norwegian literature.
Cortazar on Play
For me, literature is a form of play. But I’ve always added that there are two forms of play: football, for example, which is basically a game, and then games that are very profound and serious. When children play, though