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The Paris Review No. 162, Summer 2002

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Evil with a capital E: Ian McEwan on the writing life.

“The Admonitory Hippopotamus”: A tale from Edward Gorey’s archive.

A radio play by Rick Moody. Stories by Aleksandar Hemon, Denis Johnson, and Mary Robinson. Poems by Vijay Seshadri and Stephen Edgar.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Peter Ho Davies, The Ends

Aleksandar Hemon, Fatherland

Denis Johnson, Train Dreams

Nick McDonell, Twelve

Mary Robison, Likely Lake

Interview

Louis Begley, The Art of Fiction No. 172  Full Text

Ian McEwan, The Art of Fiction No. 173  Full Text

Poetry

Laurence Alexander, Three Poems

Rick Bass, Gold Hill, The Yaak, June 1998

Alfred Corn, Two Poems

Christopher Dunn, Nefertiti

Stephen Edgar, Sun Pictorial

Corey Marks, A Letter of Explanation

Jacqueline Osherow, Ri'e Yazmin

Kathleen Ossip, Babyland

Robert Phillips, Soliloquy of the Ethiopian Eunuch

Melissa Range, Two Poems

Stephen Sandy, Three Poems

Vijay Seshadri, Two Poems

Phillip Sterling, Three Poems

Terry Stokes, Two Poems

Corey Thrasher, Three Poems

Robert Urquhart, Two Poems

Sidney Wade, Four Poems

Feature

Edward Gorey, The Admonitory Hippopotamus

Edward Hoagland, Diaries

Rick Moody, Alamo: A Radio Play