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THE PARIS REVIEW No. 186
Fall 2008 |
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Marilynne Robinson on the art of fiction: “I write novels quickly, which is not my reputation.” Colum McCann describes a high-wire act at the World Trade Center: “they wanted the man to save himself, step backwards into the arms of the cops instead of the sky.” Jean Hatzfeld interviews the killers and survivors of the genocide in Rwanda after a presidential amnesty brings them back together. New fiction from Jesse Ball and Benjamin Markovits. Fall poetry by Mary Jo Bang, Robert Bly, and more; photographs from Iran by Mohsen Rastani and Abbas Kowsari. Plus, in honor of our fifty-fifth anniversary, an oral history of the earliest days of The Paris Review by George Plimpton, William Styron, and more. |
| TABLE OF CONTENTS |
| INTERVIEW |
| Marilynne Robinson, The Art of Fiction No. 198 |
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| FICTION |
| Jesse Ball, Archon LLC | | Benjamin Markovits, Another Sad, Bizarre Chapter in Human History | | Colum McCann, Phreak |
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| DISPATCH |
| Jean Hatzfeld, Together Again |
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| POETRY |
| Hans Arp, The Swallow's Testicle | | Mary Jo Bang, Two Poems | | Robert Bly, Two Poems | | Beau Friedlander, Old Apples | | Paul Guest, Two Poems | | Kimiko Hahn, On Being Coy | | Ben Lerner, from Mean Free Path | | Eugenio Montejo, Winter Trees Cough Like Old Men | | Ed Skoog, October | | Bruce Smith, Two Poems | | David St. John, Three Jade Dice |
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| PHOTOGRAPHS |
| Abbas Kowsari, Dragnet Tehran | | Mohsen Rastani, Iranian Family Portraits |
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| REMINISCENCE |
| Nelson W. Aldrich Jr., Paris Days |
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