The Paris Review’s Favorite Books of 2023

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View this email in your browser THE REVIEW'S REVIEW The Paris Review's Favorite Books of 2023 The Paris Review Including: Maryse Condé, Daša Drndić, Mark O'Connell, Kathryn Scanlan, Adania Shibli, Masha Tupitsyn, and Marguerite Young. FIRST PERSON Happy Books Sophie Haigney "What was happiness, anyway, and what did it mean to narrate it?" AT WORK An Excerpt from our Art of Poetry Interview with Louise Glück Henri Cole "I had read Kafka's short shorts … and when I read them again, I thought, Oh, I don't think these are that good—I could do this." FIRST PERSON Angels Cynthia Zarin "I was angry at the heat, which prevented me from walking until the evening, and at being in Rome again without you, as if Rome for me would always be a city where you were not." CAR CRUSHES Mazda Miata Mina Tavakoli "Every day after school, I would pass his car in the parking lot. It was a Maraschino-colored Mazda Miata—a two-door soft-top with a curvy body like a woman's." Copyright © 2023 The Paris Review. All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Our mailing address is: The Paris Review 544 West 27th Street 3rd Floor New York, New York 10001 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe if you must.