Lorrie Moore (A Gate at the Stairs, Birds of America) makes her Paris Review debut with the story "Terrific Mother" in the Fall 1992 issue.

Also in No. 124: The Art of Fiction interviews with Italo Calvino and Grace Paley. Stories by William S. Burroughs, Denis Johnson, and William T. Vollmann. Poems by Zbigniew Herbert, James Lasdun, and Chase Twichell.