Preview issue no. 118 at theparisreview.org. “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