The Paris Review

Table of Contents

Fiction

A. S. Byatt, The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

Charles D'Ambrosio, Open House

Romesh Gunesekera, Cook's Joy

Interview

Chinua Achebe, The Art of Fiction No. 139  Full Text

Czeslaw Milosz, The Art of Poetry No. 70  Full Text

Poetry

Nin Andrews, The Book of Lies

Artis Bernard, Securing Yellow

Don Bogen, Among Appliances

John Gery, Two Poems

Lise Goett, Three Poems

Edward Hirsch, Two Poems

Philip Kobylarz, The Insubstantial Pageant

Steve Kronen, Two Poems

Rika Lesser, Epilogue: Dodsdansen

Judy Longley, from Matisse in Morocco

Richard Lyons, The Black Venus: For Max Ernst

Mary Maxwell, Beckett in Roussillon

Gardener McFall, Two Poems

Jim Moore, Two Poems

Joyce Carol Oates, Like Walking to the Drugstore, When I Get Out

Alicia Ostriker, The Boys, the Broomhandle, the Retarded Girl

Kathleen Peirce, Three Poems

Thomas Pfau, Three Poems

Marie Ponsot, Two Poems

Bin Ramke, As If the Past

Pattiann Rogers, Two Poems

Goran Simic, Three Poems

Thomas Sleigh, Two Poems

Henry Sloss, Between Lives

Jordan Smith, After Die Walkure

Terese Svoboda, A Cure for Hiccups

Frederick Tibbetts, Dissonant Interval

David Wagoner, Love Has Something Still of the Sea

Michael White, The Woman on the Steps of the Bella Vista Apts.

Marc Woodworth, Adrian Leverkuhn's Song for the Clearwings

Art

Nancy Brett, Table of Contents

Flavia Gandolfo, Masks

Ken Lum, Portraits