Preview issue no. 48 at theparisreview.org. “A Rolls-Royce mind bumping and humming”: E. B. White on the Art of the Essay. “I sit here in a kind of stupor and call it thought”: John Steinbeck weeps over Petrarch’s sonnets and charts signals from a distant star. Stories by Donald Barthelme, Evan S. Connell, and Joy Williams. Poems by Gerard Malanga.