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The Paris Review No. 118, Spring 1991

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“Emerson is God”: Harold Bloom on the Art of Criticism.

“You can learn the names of more arcane pieces of furniture reading Balzac than you can reading a Sotheby’s catalogue”: Tom Wolfe on the Art of Fiction.

Stories by J. G. Ballard, Evan S. Connell, and Tatyana Tolstaya. Poems by Diane Ackerman, Eavan Boland, and William Logan

Table of Contents

Fiction

J. G. Ballard, The Index

Evan S. Connell, from The Alchymist's Journal

Tatyana Tolstaya, Night

Interview

Harold Bloom, The Art of Criticism No. 1  Full Text

Tom Wolfe, The Art of Fiction No. 123  Full Text

Poetry

Diane Ackerman, Two Poems

Ibn Darraj al-Quastalli, The Lily

John Ashbery, from Flow Chart  Full Text

Randy Blasing, Hymn to the Sun

Don Bogen, Thoroughbreds

Eavan Boland, Two Poems

Lucie Brock-Broido, Two Poems

Mark Halliday, Two Poems

John Hollander, Selected Short Subjects

Helena Kaminski, Two Poems

A. M. Krich, At the Freud Museum

Mark Levine, At the Experimental Farm

William Logan, The Rising Sun

Ibn Sara, Eggplant

David Sheppard, Walking Away

Enid Shomer, Hydrotherapy

Terese Svoboda, Inventor

Eric Trethewey, Scar

Theodore Weiss, A Foreign Tongue

John Yau, Postcard from Trakl

Ibn Zamrak, The Alhambra Inscription

Feature

Anthony Burgess, from You've Had Your Time

Maryann Carver, Glimpses: Raymond Carver

Ben Sonnenberg, I See a Woman May Be Made a Fool

Art

Allen Ruppersberg, Contents Page: The Gift and the Inheritance

Mark Tansey, Pictures