June/July/Aug 2008 • Table of Contents
Right Makes Might
KEVIN MATTSON on THE CONSERVATIVE TAKEOVER OF AMERICAN POLITICS
Voices Carry
LAWRENCE HILL on CIVIL WAR SLAVE NARRATIVES
Fiction and Political Fact
MORRIS DICKSTEIN on POLITICAL NOVELS
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REFLECTIONS BY MADISON SMARTT BELL, DANIEL KEHLMANN, RICHARD FLANAGAN, DANA SPIOTTA, LYDIA MILLET, DUBRAVKA UGRESIC, NORMAN RUSH, VALERIE MARTIN, CLAIRE MESSUD, MARGOT LIVESEY, ZAKES MDA, AND SIDDHARTHA DEB
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DAVID L. ULIN ON THE ’60S REVISITED
FICTION & POETRY
ROSS BENJAMIN on How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Sasa Stanisic
ALEX ABRAMOVICH on Slumberland by Paul Beatty
MICHAEL WOOD on The Delighted States by Adam Thirlwell
JAMES GIBBONS on Trauma by Patrick McGrath
LENORA TODARO on The Size of the World by Joan Silber
JENNIFER GILMORE on Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love by Lara Vapnyar
STACEY D’ERASMO on Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
CHRISTOPHER R. BEHA on Personal Days by Ed Park
KATHERINE HILL on Happy Trails to You by Julie Hecht
CARLA BLUMENKRANZ on Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
JOHANNAH RODGERS on Missy by Chris Hannan
STEFANIE SOBELLE on A Chronicle of the Madness of Small Worlds by Mac Wellman
ANDREA WALKER on Harry, Revised by Mark Sarvas
ROBERT P. BAIRD on Seven Notebooks by Campbell McGrath
COLUMNS
COLLECTIONS
Radhika Jones on Kenneth Goldsmith
INTERVIEW
Bookforum talks with Ron Hansen
INTERVIEW
Bookforum talks with Stephen Shore
LUXURY & DEGRADATION
Marc Weingarten on Doris Day
COMING ATTRACTIONS
Brick Lane, the film; the Bookforum literary calendar
NONFICTION
JONATHAN SCHELL on Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker
PAUL LA FARGE on Tintin and the Secret of Literature by Tom McCarthy
WENDY LESSER on A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy and The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso
RICHARD WOLIN on Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius by Detlev Claussen
RICK PERLSTEIN on The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s by G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert S. Weisbrot
HANNAH BLOCH on The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century by Steve Coll
NICOLE RUDICK on The Americans by Robert Frank
GUS RUSSO on The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by David Kaiser
JANINE ARMIN on Pure War by Paul Virilio and Sylvère Lotringer
SCOTT MCLEMEE on French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States by François Cusset
RICHARD BYRNE on The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet
AMANDA SCHAFFER on Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative by Priscilla Wald
ROLAND KELTS on Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan by Donald Keene
BRYAN WALSH on The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester
TALINE VOSKERITCHIAN on Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh
RAYYAN AL-SHAWAF on Origins by Amin Maalouf
MATTHEW JESSE JACKSON on Art Power by Boris Groys
DONNA SEAMAN on The Bishop’s Daughter by Honor Moore
MARJORIE WELISH on Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions by Maggie Nelson
ALBERT MOBILIO on It’s Beautiful Here, Isn’t It . . . : Photographs by Luigi Ghirri
NICK POPPY on A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry by Sharon Weinberger and Nathan Hodge
ANDREW HULTKRANS on I Have Fun Everywhere I Go by Mike Edison
NICOLE RUDICK on Chemises by Malick Sidibé
KARIN L. KROSS on Daddy’s Girl by Debbie Drechsler
NICOLE LANCTOT on Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture edited by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky
