Dennis Zhou lives in New York, where he currently works as the Senior Editor at The Paris Review. Previously, he edited fiction at The New Yorker.

He has written for publications including The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Artforum, and Art in America.

Email: info@denniszhou.net


SELECTED WRITING

"Bi Gan’s Dream Factory,” The New Yorker (2025)

On Solvej Balle, The New York Times Magazine (2025)

"Hong Kong Plays Itself,” The New York Review of Books (2025)

"The Quantum Generation” [Jia Zhangke], NYRB (2025)

Cracked Actor: Lee Kang-sheng, Metrograph Journal (2025)

Filming and Forgetting Taipei” [Edward Yang], NYRB (2024)

An-My Lê’s Uncanny Images of War,” The New Yorker (2023)

Interview with Jia Zhangke, Metrograph Journal (2023)

In the Same Light” [On Tang Dynasty Poetry], Poetry Magazine (2022)

The World-Making Aesthetic of Hong Sangsoo,” The Nation (2022)

Poet of the Camera” [James Wong Howe], NYRB (2022)

Apichatpong the Memorious” [Apichatpong Weerasethakul], The Baffler (2022)

In Taiwan’s Mountains, a Director Works to Slow Life Down” [Tsai Ming-liang], The New Yorker (2021)

Review: The 12th Taipei Biennial, Art in America (2021)

Review: Tishan Hsu, Art in America (2020)

Gross Autonomy” [Pietro Marcello’s “Martin Eden”], Artforum (2019)

Poet of Boston” [The Novels of Jean Stafford], the Times Literary Supplement (2019)

Stars and rhyme divine,” [Herman Melville’s Poetry], the Times Literary Supplement (2019)


SELECTED INTERVIEWS

Daisy Hildyard [for her New Yorker story “Revision”]

David Szalay [for the story “Plaster”]

Shuang Xuetao [for the story “Paris Friend”]

Thomas Korsgaard [for the story “The Spit of Him”]

Addie Citchens [for the story “That Girl”]

Shuang Xuetao [for the story “Heart”]

Hiromi Kawakami [for the story “The Kitchen God”]

Michele Mari [for the story “The Soccer Balls of Mr. Kurz”]

Laurie Colwin [for the story “Evensong”]

Han Kang [for the story “The Middle Voice”]

Joan Silber [for the story “Evolution”]