PEN America Issue 4: Fact/Fiction (PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers)

Cover
Copyright
Title
Contents
Forum
Unreliable Narrators
In Politics
In Literature
Tribute
John Steinbeck: Fights and Flights
A Suffering Conscience: Arthur Miller
On the Road Again: John Steinbeck
A Mighty Heart: William Kennedy
Real People: Dorothy Allison
The More Things Change: Studs Terkel
Story Lines: Peter Matthiessen
Home Grown: John Steinbeck
Small-Town Tales: Michele Serros
Lonesome Animals: George Plimpton
End of the Road: John Steinbeck
Fiction
Heartless: Jeanette Winterson
The Truth About Sancho Panza: Franz Kafka
Cervantes and the Quixote: Jorge Luis Borges
The Whole Truth: Miguel de Cervantes
Continuity of Parks: Julio Cortázar
Strange to Say …: W. G. Sebald
Who’s Dreaming Whom?: Lewis Carroll
The Last Days of a Famous Mime: Peter Carey
A Conversation with My Father: Grace Paley
What She Wanted: Alice Munro
A Time to Mourn: William Maxwell
The Memory of All That: William Maxwell
Passion Flowers: Penelope Fitzgerald
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Robert Olen Butler
Against Interpretation: Ismail Kadare
True War Stories: Tim O’Brien
Poetry
Inside Gertrude Stein: Lynn Emanuel
I Have Dreamed of You So Much: Robert Desnos
Farewell: Agha Shahid Ali
Lessons in Parsing: Rashid Hussein
The Colonel: Carolyn Forché
Memoir
The Passions of Lalla: Michael Ondaatje
Foreign Relations: Paula Fox
‘Want to Love You’: Sheila Munro
Dear Frere: Graham Greene
Conversations
‘Open Destiny of Life’: Grace Paley
Imagined Landscape: William Maxwell
The Story of the Story: Lorrie Moore
‘This Is True’: Tim O’Brien
Essays
Partial Magic in the Quixote: Jorge Luis Borges
Sebald’s Uncertainty: James Wood
Building a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later: Philip K. Dick
Breezy Stream of Time: Simon Schama
What Is Real?: Alice Munro
Better and Sicker: Lorrie Moore
At the Washington Zoo: Randall Jarrell
The Deaths of Anton Chekhov: Janet Malcolm
The Truth of Lies: Mario Vargas Llosa
The Shortcomings of History: Richard Holmes
Last Fragments: Novalis
Shadowlands: Milan Kundera
The Allegory of the Cave: Plato
contributors
Acknowledgements