The Paris Review

Table of Contents

Fiction

Louis de Bernieres, Our Lady of Beauty

A. L. Kennedy, Indelible Acts

Norman Lock, A Treatise on Desire

J. David Stevens, The Sniper's Story

Joy Williams, Substance

Interview

V. S. Naipaul, The Art of Fiction No. 154  Full Text

Mark Strand, The Art of Poetry No. 77  Full Text

Poetry

Neil Azevedo, Three Poems

Diann Blakely, The Dolls

Scott Coffel, Andrei and Natasha

Alfred Corn, Who, What, Where, When, Why?

Rachel Hadas, Searching the Scriptures

Anthony Hecht, Le Jet d'Eau

Melanie Hope, Sixth Grade

Sue Kwock Kim, Two Poems

Wayne Koestenbaum, Splinters

Daniel Kunitz, Asleep in San Vito

Richard Lamb, Three Poems

Rachel Loden, Two Poems

John McKernan, Room Service

Stephen McLeod, Two Poems

Susan Mitchell, Autobiography

Nick Norwood, A Palace for the Heart

Eric Ormsby, Two Poems

Kathleen Peirce, Four Poems

Carl Phillips, Of That City, the Heart

Bin Ramke, A Great Noise the World Makes

Stephen Sandy, Five Poems

Daniel Tobin, Floor Scrapers

Kevin Young, Homage to Phillis Wheatley

Feature

Simon Armitage, Jerusalem

Kurt Vonnegut, L'histoire du soldat

Art

Karen Kilimnik, Sugar

Alan Loehle, Six Dogs

Mark Strand, Island Monotype