Amid all the commotion of the long-heralded Paris Review’s first issue from its new editor, Lorin Stein, is a pure gift to readers everywhere; Stein has made all of the Review’s interviews available for free at www.theparisreview.org. These go all the way back to the first issue from 1953, which featured E.M. Forster’s interview.

Notably, the collection includes conversations with John Updike, Mary Karr, Ernest Hemingway, Jorge Luis Borges, Hunter S. Thompson, and a 1968 interview with Jack Kerouac where he asks his interviewer, “Why is there a little white beard in your mortality belly?”

The collection invites all lovers of prose and poetry to spend hours reviewing the classic, controversial, and remarkable interviews from the Paris Review.