The Paris Review

Table of Contents

Fiction

Anne Enright, Pale Hands I Loved, Beside the Shalimar

Karl Iagnemma, On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction

David Leavitt, Crossing St. Gotthard

Interview

Beryl Bainbridge, The Art of Fiction No. 164  Full Text

Julian Barnes, The Art of Fiction No. 165  Full Text

Poetry

Christopher Bakken, Three Poems

George Bradley, Nabu-Kudurri-Usur and the Word

Michael Burns, Two Poems

Elena Karina Byrne, Sanctuary of Hunger

John Canaday, A True Story

Kevin Cantwell, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

Cassandra Cleghorn, Three Poems

Laurie Clements, The Shaking

Craig Crist-Evans, Heron

Nicole Cuddeback, Two Poems

Angie Estes, Vermeer Fever

Jenny Factor, To Twenty Canada Geese In the Palisades Industrial Park

Patricia Ferrell, Five Poems

Gary Fincke, Four Poems

Mary Gannon, Ghost

Faye George, Three Poems

Stuart Greenhouse, Four Poems

Lois Hirshkowitz, Two Poems

Karen Holmberg, The Perseids

Benjamin Ivry, Four Poems

Paul Kane, Two Poems

Carol Stevens Kner, Masters of the Renaissance

Cynthia Kraman, Ride to Manhattan (with Rainbow)

Timothy Liu, Four Poems

Michael McFee, Spigot with Imaginary Animals

Stephen McLeod, Maria Gostrey

W. S. Merwin, Three Poems

M. Minford-Meas, Bone Ceremony

Carol Moldaw, The Lightning Feld

Joan Murray, Toby's Body

Christopher Patton, Broken Ground

Rodney Phillips, Two Poems

James Pollock, Northwest Passage

Francis Ponge, La Rage de l'expression

Burton Raffel, An Autumnal

Robert Richman, Getting to Know the Infinite

Pattiann Rogers, Archetype

Kenneth Rosen, Four Poems

David Schloss, Two Poems

Ann Snodgrass, Fugue, 1942

Andrew Towle, Two Poems

Wyatt Townley, Distant Lessons

Meredith Trede, Two Poems

Michael Tyrell, Two Poems

Brian Wickers, Marginal Questions, Winter, English 101, Frost

Alison Woods, Two Poems

Wahn Yoon, Portfolio

Feature

Terry Quinn, Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya

Edmund White, The Flaneur

Art

Nancy Friedemann, Maps, Fingerprints, Sequences