The Paris Review

Table of Contents

Fiction

Rick DeMarinis, An Airman's Good-bye

Murray Pomerance, Decor

Nicholas Shakespeare, The Statue

Lily Tuck, L'Esprit de l'Escalier

Interview

Gunter Grass, The Art of Fiction No. 124  Full Text

Octavio Paz, The Art of Poetry No. 42  Full Text

Poetry

Jonathan Aaron, Two Poems

Tina Barr, Twelve Dancing Princesses

Yves Bonnefoy, Two Poems

David Bottoms, Two Poems

Steven Cramer, Two Poems

T. Crunk, Redemption

Stephen Dunn, Good Talk

Tess Gallagher, Two Poems

Dana Gioia, Becoming a Redwood

Walter Griffin, The Bones of Montgomery Clift

Marilyn Hacker, Two Poems

Daniel Halpern, Infidelities

Daryl Hine, Two Poems

James Laughlin, Lines to be put into Latin

David Lehman, At LaGuardia

Campbell McGrath, Two Poems

Milan Richter, Two Poems

Mark Rudman, Back Stairwell

Ira Sadoff, On the Job

Marcia Slatkin, Two Poems

Charlie Smith, Lies to the Dying

Brian Swann, Restoration of a Copy of an Imaginary Painting

Feature

Harold Acton, Recollections of an Aesthete

Mary McCarthy, Edmund Wilson

Ben Sonnenberg, La Consula

Art

Larry Johnson, Untitled

Carrie Mae Weems, Contents Page: Untitled