Preview issue no. 8 at theparisreview.org. “The Negro novelist draws his blackness too tightly around him when he sits down to write—that’s what the anti-protest critics believe—but perhaps the white reader draws his whiteness around himself when he sits down to read”: Ralph Ellison on the Art of Fiction. Eugene Walter on a portfolio of Polish artist Feliks Topolski. A story by Vilma Howard. Poems by Geoffrey Hill and Louis Simpson.