Lorin Stein is an Editor-at-Large at McNally Editions, the paperback series he founded with bookseller Sarah McNally in 2020. Previously, Stein was an editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. From 2010-17, he was editor of The Paris Review, which received its first National Magazine Award for General Excellence under his tenure.

Books edited by Stein have received the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Seven were included by the New York Times Book Review in their "100 Best Books of the Twenty-First Century."

Stein's reviews have appeared in Harper's, the London Review of Books, the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, and The Yale Review. His translations from the French include Submission, by Michel Houellebecq; Autoportrait, by Edouard Levé, and History of Violence, by Edouard Louis. In 2012 he was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.