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
ART WINSLOW on Richard Ford’s The Lay of the Land
TOM PIAZZA on Charlie Chan Collection, Volume I and The Charlie Chan Chanthology
HARRY COOPER on Mark Rothko’s Writings on Art
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
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
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
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
