Emily Nemens Departs as Paris Review Editor Named to the top job in 2018, her resignation follows a handful of personnel changes at literary publications. Emily Nemens said on Wednesday that she was leaving her position as editor of The Paris Review.Credit...Jules Slutsky March 3, 2021 Emily Nemens is stepping down as editor of The Paris Review less than three years after she was named to lead the prestigious New York-based literary magazine. In a note published Wednesday on the magazine’s website, Nemens wrote about the publication’s mission and the things she’s been proudest of in her time there. Only toward the end of the nearly 600-word post did she reveal that she is leaving to work on her second novel. “Hopefully, eventually, I’ll edit again,” she wrote. “Connecting writers to readers is among the world’s best professions.”