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NEW SPRING ISSUE AVAILABLE NOW


Kazuo Ishiguro on the art of fiction.

A recently discovered interview with Leonard Michaels.

New fiction from J. David Stevens and a debut story from Ryan McIlvain.

Spring poetry by Dan Chiasson, Katie Ford, and Tomaz Salamun.

The trumpeter's collages: artwork from Louis Armstrong.

Mark Dow on Jerusalem, the Brooklyn Public Library, and beets.

Plus Tim Winton on surfing (“I couldn't take my eyes from those plumes of spray, the churning shards of light”) and a photo sketch-book of an airship in flight over the rainforest by Lena Herzog and Graham Dorrington.





Read the three stories from
The Paris Review that were nominated for a 2008 National Magazine Award in fiction.


“Monsieur Kalashnikov” by André Aciman
“Speak No Evil” by Uzodinma Iweala
“Icebergs” by Alistair Morgan



  FROM THE NEW ISSUE

Box
J. David Stevens

We listened as the people on the other side of the wall tried to open the door. They called to passersby. A few glasses seemed to drop from the bar, there was a breaking sound, and a woman’s voice saying, “I’ll take care of that.” Then we heard a sound like a giant toilet being flushed on a giant airplane, followed by silence. I went to the wall and knocked on it. “Hello?” I said. “Hel-lo-o?”



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