The Paris Review

Table of Contents

Fiction

Thomas Glynn, Apondé, the Magnificent Times Two

Ernst Havemann, The Prophet Elijah

Charlie Smith, from Shine Hawk

David Foster Wallace, Little Expressionless Animals

Interview

Doris Lessing, The Art of Fiction No. 102  Full Text

Marguerite Yourcenar, The Art of Fiction No. 103  Full Text

Poetry

S. Ben-Tov, The Foucault Pendulum at Hanover

Ulrich Berkes, Five Poems

Joao Cabral de Melo Neto, The Word Silk

Tom Disch, The Dirt and the Willow

Florence Elon, Place Not Taken

Daniel Mark Epstein, The Rivals

Irving Feldman, Street Scene

Thom Gunn, Two Poems

James Laughlin, Ten Poems

David Lehman, Mythologies

William Logan, Haddocks' Eyes

Christopher Logue, from The Iliad

Alice Mattison, During the Night

Lynne McMahon, Dog Days

Steffen Mensching, Six Poems

Cynthia Nadelman, Two Poems

Jim Powell, Housekeeping

Donald Revell, Why History Imitates God

Betsy Rosenberg, Bird Song

Umberto Saba, Three Poems

Hugh Seidman, Three Poems

Terese Svoboda, The Root of Mother is Moth

David Trinidad, Hand Over Heart

John Updike, Klimt and Schiele Confront the Cunt

Marjorie Welish, Greeting

Feature

J. P. Donleavy, An Exchange

George Kane, Two Contemporary East German Poets: Ulrich Berkes and Steffen Mensching

William Styron, Family Album

William Carlos Williams, Correspondence with His Publisher

Art

Mike Starn, Portraits