Features
Excerpts from Ginsberg’s letters and the obscenity trial
A to D: Writing the Lower East Side
Dennis Cooper and Eileen Myles on the downtown scene
Liza Kirwin on David Wojnarowicz
Catherine Texier on Kathy Acker
Featured Reviews
on The Lay of the Land
on Charlie Chan Collection, Volume I and The Charlie Chan Chanthology
on Writings on Art
Fiction
on Restless
on American Genius: A Comedy
on Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War
on Ancestor Stones
on In Search of a Lost Ladino: Letter to Antonio Saura
on Only Revolutions
on The Centenarian, or, The Two Beringhelds
on H2O
on The Keep
on Strangers in the House: Life Stories
on Golden Country
on Special Topics in Calamity Physics
on The Uses of Enchantment
on Collected Poems: With Notes Toward the Memoirs
Columns
COLLECTIONS
Mike Topp on Barney Rosset
FOCUS
Marisa Bowe on southern food
SHELF LIFE
Karen Lee Boren on Milwaukee’s Renaissance Book Shop
Arts & Culture
on Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War
FILM
on What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A Portrait of an Independent Career and Simon Callow’s Orson Welles, Volume 2: Hello Americans
on The Man Who Saved Britain: A Personal Journey into the Disturbing World of James Bond
MEMOIR
on The American Home Front, 1941–1942
on The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
LITERARY HISTORY
on Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theater, Philosophy
on The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story
PHILOSOPHY
on Selected Writings on Aesthetics
on Heidegger’s Hut
SPORTS & DIVERSIONS
on A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood’s Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports
on Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling
NOTED
on The Question
on For the Prevention of Cruelty: The History and Legacy of Animal Rights Activism in the United States
on Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
on Listen to the Mockingbird: American Folksongs and Popular Music Lyrics of the 19th Century
on The Left Bank Gang
Monographs
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