The Paris Review

Table of Contents

Fiction

Andre Dubus, Waiting

Scott Paul Elledge, Mary Kingsley's Importation of Duke Ellington to America

Barbara Milton, A Small Cartoon

Mary Morris, Holland

Interview

John Gardner, The Art of Fiction No. 73  Full Text

Irwin Shaw, The Art of Fiction No. 4 (Continued)  Full Text

Poetry

George Bradley, In Bed with a River

Jorie Graham, Mirrors

Allen Grossman, Five Poems

Thom Gunn, Sweet Things

Seamus Heaney, Two Poems

Lewis Hyde, Street Money

David St. John, Lunch

Margaret Kent, Where It Came From

Miriam Levine, For a Poem

Herbert Morris, These Are Lives

Alan Nadel, Two Poems

Joyce Carol Oates, Three Poems

Octavio Paz, In the Middle of This Page

John Peck, Two Poems

John Peech, The Hardness of the Wind

Joyce Peseroff, April to May

Jayne Anne Philips, Two Poems

John Ramington, Theological Reflections at Roger's Tavern

Liam Rector, Two Poems

Florence Rubenfeld, Three Poems

Sherod Santos, Difficult Place

Richard Tillinghast, Sovereigns

Feature

Alain Arias-Misson, Word and Image

Peter Handke, from Fantasies and Prejudices

James Salter, D'Annunzio: The Immortal Who Died

Art

Chuck Close, Phil/Six Images 1969-78, Self-Portrait

Stephanie Brody Lederman, Heroic Couplet (The Hustle)

Allen Ruppersberg, Burning Issues