For fifty years, The Paris Review has published writing and interviews from the world´s most brilliant authors. Here to commemorate its golden anniversary is a breathtakingly diverse and illuminating anthology, with the greatest writers of the last half-century writing on the gratest subjects. It is a unique collection of stories, poetry, thoughts and observations on the themes of modern life both great and trivial, as well as a compendium of timeless insights into how and why we embark on the processes of creativuty and critical thinking.

Like the masterful work of the writers included, the book inspires a dizzying range of thought and emotion, holding a mirror to the world we live in and to reader´s own hopes, dreams, fears, and joy.

Lorrie Moore on Heartbreak, John Updike on Sex, David Foster Wallace on Love, Jonathan Franzen on Betrayal, Truman Capote on Outsiders, Kurt Vonnegut on War, Joyce Carol Oates on Horrors, Gabriel García Márquez on God.