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Sept/Oct/Nov 2006 • Table of Contents

  • FICTION

  • Jon Raymond on William Boyd’s Restless

  • Donna Seaman on Lynne Tillman’s American Genius: A Comedy

  • Suzanne Ruta on Assia Djebar’s Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War

  • Maxine Swann on Aminatta Forna’s Ancestor Stones

  • Taline Voskeritchian on Marcel Cohen’s In Search of a Lost Ladino: Letter to Antonio Saura

  • Stefanie Sobelle on Mark Z. Danielewski’s Only Revolutions

  • Gideon Lewis-Kraus on Chris Adrian’s The Children’s Hospital

  • Paul Grimstad on Honoré de Balzac’s The Centenarian, or, The Two Beringhelds

  • Johannah Rodgers on Mark Swartz’s H2O

  • Nicole Rudick on Jennifer Egan’s The Keep

  • Richard Howard on Dorothy Gallagher’s Strangers in the House: Life Stories

  • Karen Karbo on Jennifer Gilmore’s Golden Country

  • Radhika Jones on Marisha Pessl’s Special Topics in Calamity Physics

  • LIsa Shea on Heidi Julavits’s The Uses of Enchantment

  • Irene Gammel on Djuna Barnes’s Collected Poems: With Notes Toward the Memoirs

  • Interview

    Bookforum talks with Michael Tolkin

  • ARTS & CULTURE

  • HISTORY

    Gershom Gorenberg on Nir Hefez and Gadi Bloom’s Ariel Sharon: A Life

  • William S. McFeely on Nicholas Lemann’s Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War

  • FILM

    Kent Jones on Joseph McBride’s What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A Portrait of an Independent Career and Simon Callow’s Orson Welles, Volume 2: Hello Americans

  • Matthew Price on Simon Winder’s The Man Who Saved Britain: A Personal Journey into the Disturbing World of James Bond

  • MEMOIR

    Verlyn Klinkenborg on Alistair Cooke’s The American Home Front, 1941–1942

  • Nico Israel on Daniel Mendelsohn’s The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

  • LITERARY HISTORY

    Jeffrey Frank on Toril Moi’s Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy

  • Charlotte Taylor on Martin Scofield’s The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story

  • PHILOSOPHY

    Arthur C. Danto on Johann Gottfried Herder’s Selected Writings on Aesthetics

  • Andrea Walker on Adam Sharr’s Heidegger’s Hut

  • SPORTS & DIVERSIONS

    Tom Nawrocki on Brad Snyder’s A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood’s Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports

  • Eric Banks on David G. Schwartz’s Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling

  • NOTED

    David Levi Strauss on Henri Alleg’s The Question

  • Sally Eckhoff on Diane L. Beers’s For the Prevention of Cruelty: The History and Legacy of Animal Rights Activism in the United States

  • Anthony Swofford on Mark Kurlansky’s Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea

  • Stacey Levine on Douglas Messerli’s Listen to the Mockingbird: American Folksongs and Popular Music Lyrics of the 19th Century

  • Matt Madden on Jason’s The Left Bank Gang

  • MONOGRAPHS & CATALOGUES

  • Michael Newman’s Richard Prince: Untitled (couple)

  • Gregory L. Blackstock’s Blackstock’s Collections: The Drawings of an Artistic Savant

  • Banksy’s Wall and Piece

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