The Paris Review

Table of Contents

Fiction

Noah Hawley, In the Air

Jonathan Lethem, Tugboat Syndrome

José Saramago, The Tale of the Unknown Island

Kate Walbert, The Intervention

Interview

Robert Fagles, The Art of Translation No. 2  Full Text

Shelby Foote, The Art of Fiction No. 158  Full Text

Poetry

Molly Bendall, Stunted Gardens

Michael Benedikt, Professor Albert Einstein

Peg Boyers, Open Letter to Alberto Moravia

Derick Burleson, Two Poems

Anne Carson, Three Poems

Robin Davidson, Women Harvesting: Virgins, Widows, Wives

Peter Davison, Little Death

Anthony Deaton, On the General Principles of Knot-Tying

Annmarie Drury, Three Poems

Malcolm Farley, Two Poems

Irving Feldman, Two Poems

Gary Fincke, The Eternal Language of the Hands

Albert Goldbarth, Sestina

Mary Gordon, Prayers

Gregory Griffith, O Orpheus

William Logan, The Shorter Aeneid

Corey Marks, For Keats, After Keats

Campbell McGrath, Atlanta

Christian Nagle, Three Poems

Donald Platt, White Iris

Kenneth Rosen, The Motto

Kay Ryan, Three Poems

Martha Silano, What I Meant to Say Before I Said ‘So Long’

Shawn Sturgeon, Two Poems

Terese Svoboda, Three Poems

Dorothea Tanning, Two Poems

Constance Urdang, Two Poems

Rosanna Warren, Mud

Charles H. Webb, Coach Class Seats

Renee Weiss, Footwork

Theodore Weiss, Footwork

Feature

James Atlas, W.G. Sebald: A Profile

James Atlas, Como Conversazione: On Literary Biography

Art

Vik Muniz, Pictures of Chocolate

Valerie Sadoun, Contents Illustration

Nicola Tyson, Four Engravings