About Lorin Stein: Lorin Hollister Stein is an American critic, editor, and translator. He is the editor in chief of The Paris Review.
Nowadays, even is afraid to say when a popular book is crap.
I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.
If I could change the attitude of young men toward literature, I would want them to read not just for escape, but because literature can be more truthful about things like sex, commitment, and aging. It can be more truthful about the stuff that our p...
I don't know what people should be reading. Only you know what you should be reading.
