The Paris Review

Table of Contents

Fiction

William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside

Gunter Grass, The String Bag

Denis Johnson, Beverly Home

Lorrie Moore, Terrific Mother

William T. Vollmann, The Ghost of Magnetism

Interview

Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130  Full Text

Grace Paley, The Art of Fiction No. 131  Full Text

Poetry

Nin Andrews, Red Blossoms

Bruce Beasley, Eve, Learning to Speak

David Bottoms, Hard Easter, Northwest Montana

Amy Clampitt, Two Poems

Toi Derricotte, Two Poems

Stephen Dobyns, Two Poems

Stephen Dunn, Two Poems

Laura Fargas, Two Poems

Marilyn Hacker, Two Poems

Rachel Hadas, Two Poems

Zbigniew Herbert, Ten Poems

Jane Hirshfield, Two Poems

Jovan Hristic, Two Poems

James Lasdun, The Calling of the Apostle Matthew

J. D. McClatchy, Two Poems

Sandra McPherson, Two Men Trading Dance Movements

Lisel Mueller, Two Poems

Mary Oliver, Two Poems

Agnieszka Osiecka, Two Poems

Jeremy Reed, Two Poems

Patricia Smith, Always in the Head

Richard Tillinghast, Aubade

Chase Twichell, Two Poems

Susan Wheeler, Debates

Feature

Pietro Citati, Italo Calvino: A Memoir

Art

Craig Roper, The Dust Blows Forward and the Dust Blows Back

Kiki Smith, Untitled