Preview issue no. 140 at theparisreview.org. Richard Ford discusses the Art of Fiction and his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, Independence Day. Amos Oz on the Arab-Israeli conflict, the desert, and life on a kibbutz. Stories by Rhidian Brook, Robert Olen Butler, and Richard Stern. Poems by Frank Bidart, Sharon Olds, and Ira Sadoff.