Preview issue no. 213 at theparisreview.org.
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky on the art of fiction. Peter Cole on the art of fiction, “Smart people say such dumb and disappointing things about translation.”
New fiction by Michel Houellebecq, Deb Olin Unferth, David Szalay, Ann Beattie, Andrés Neuman, Padgett Powell, Chris Bachelder, and Lucia Berlin.
Poems by Coral Bracho, D. Nurkse, Xi Chuan, Radmila Lazić, Iman Mersal, Peter Cole, Nick Twemlow, Ishion Hutchinson, and John Koethe. And a portfolio by Aidan Koch.