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This year has certainly been a memorable one for , with more than a few moments that tried our resolve. But we prefer to remember it as a landmark year, measured out by four extraordinary issues that included about James Baldwin and Nina Simone, the fiction debuts of and , and an , one of the magazine’s first to carry you into the new year, and many more to come) and reintroduced the Paris Review Editions imprint with the interview anthology. As of this writing, the volume is sold out, but : the next book is already underway.

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