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THE PARIS REVIEW No. 118
Spring 1991
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Spring 1991
“Emerson is God”: Harold Bloom on the Art of Criticism.

“You can learn the names of more arcane pieces of furniture reading Balzac than you can reading a Sotheby’s catalogue”: Tom Wolfe on the Art of Fiction.

Stories by J. G. Ballard, Evan S. Connell, and Tatyana Tolstaya. Poems by Diane Ackerman, Eavan Boland, and William Logan


TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERVIEW
Harold Bloom, The Art of Criticism No. 1
Tom Wolfe, The Art of Fiction No. 123

FICTION
J. G. Ballard, The Index
Evan S. Connell, from The Alchymist's Journal
Tatyana Tolstaya, Night

FEATURE
Anthony Burgess, from You've Had Your Time
Maryann Carver, Glimpses: Raymond Carver
Raymond Carver, Glimpses: Raymond Carver
Chuck Kinder, Glimpses: Raymond Carver
William Kittredge, Glimpses: Raymond Carver
Jay McInerney, Glimpses: Raymond Carver
Ben Sonnenberg, I See a Woman May Be Made a Fool
Douglas Unger, Glimpses: Raymond Carver

POETRY
Diane Ackerman, Two Poems
Ibn Darraj al-Quastalli, The Lily
John Ashbery, from Flow Chart
Randy Blasing, Hymn to the Sun
Don Bogen, Thoroughbreds
Eavan Boland, Two Poems
Lucie Brock-Broido, Two Poems
Mark Halliday, Two Poems
John Hollander, Selected Short Subjects
Helena Kaminski, Two Poems
A. M. Krich, At the Freud Museum
Mark Levine, At the Experimental Farm
William Logan, The Rising Sun
Ibn Sara, Eggplant
David Sheppard, Walking Away
Enid Shomer, Hydrotherapy
Terese Svoboda, Inventor
Eric Trethewey, Scar
Theodore Weiss, A Foreign Tongue
John Yau, Postcard from Trakl
Ibn Zamrak, The Alhambra Inscription

ART
Joan Mitchell, Cover: Hours
Allen Ruppersberg, Contents Page: The Gift and the Inheritance
Mark Tansey, Pictures

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