Feb/Mar 2007 • Table of Contents
His Back Pages
James Gibbons on Paul Auster
Reasons to Believe
Gerald Howard on Philip Rieff
On the Record
Albert Mobilio on the talk writers talk
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Interviewing the Interviewers: Terry Gross, Bernard Pivot, Studs Terkel, and Michael Silverblatt
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Excerpts: Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Theodore Dreiser, and Jack Kerouac
FEATURED REVIEWS
Ross Benjamin on Friedrich Durrenmatt's Selected Writings
Mary V. Dearborn on Norman Mailer's The Castle in the Forest
Geoff Nicholson on Roddy Doyle's Paula Spencer
Vivian Gornick on Susan Sontag's At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
Gal Beckerman on Michael B. Oren's Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present
Suzanne Ruta on Anouar Benmalek's The Lovers of Algeria and The Child of an Ancient People
Aruna D'Souza on Kirk Varnedoe's Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock
FICTION
Maya Jaggi on Nuruddin Farah's Knots
Jenifer Berman on Mischa Berlinski's Fieldwork
Lauren Sanders on Joshua Ferris's Then We Came to the End
Stefanie Sobelle on Dumitru Tsepeneag's Vain Art of the Fugue
Lenora Todaro on Tom McCarthy’s Remainder
Thomas Meaney on André Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name
Lisa Shea on Louise Dean’s This Human Season
Nicole Rudick on Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon
Masha Tupitsyn on Natsuo Kirino’s Grotesque
Joseph Donahue on David Shapiro’s New and Selected Poems (1965–2006)
Max Winter on Anna Moschovakis’s I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone
Benjamin Lytal on Joel Rose’s The Blackest Bird: A Novel of Murder in Nineteenth-Century New York
Ed Park on Adam Rapp's The Year of Endless Sorrows
INTERVIEW
Bookforum talks with William T. Vollmann
COLUMNS
COMING ATTRACTIONS
Perfume, the oral history; the George Plimpton statue; collected works on the Web; the Bookforum literary calendar
COLLECTIONS
Radhika Jones on Edward Mendelson
FOCUS
Photography
SHELF LIFE
Marcela Valdes on Indies Under Fire: The Battle for the American Bookstore
LUXURY & DEGRADATION
Thad Ziolkowski on surf photography
ARTS & CULTURE
MUSIC
Paul Griffiths on Peter Williams’s J. S. Bach: A Life in Music and Martin Geck’s Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work
BIOGRAPHY
Aaron Matz on Claire Tomalin’s Thomas Hardy
LITERARY CRITICISM
Nick Tosches on Erich Auerbach’s Dante: Poet of the Secular World
CLASSICS
Joy Connolly on Virgil’s The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles
LITERARY CRITICISM
Emilie Bickerton on The Novel, Volume 1: History, Geography, and Culture and The Novel, Volume 2: Forms and Themes, edited by Franco Moretti
PHILOSOPHY
Arthur C. Danto on Roger Woolhouse’s Locke: A Biography
REFERENCE
Katie Hafner on Fred R. Shapiro’s The Yale Book of Quotations
FOOD
Eric Banks on Warren Belasco’s Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food and Tristram Stuart’s The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times
HISTORY
William S. McFeely on Aaron Sachs’s The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American
POLITICS
Stephanie Hanson on Eric Hershberg and Fred Rosen’s Latin America After Neoliberalism: Turning the Tide in the 21st Century? and Nancy Grey Postero’s Now We Are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Postmulticultural Bolivia
NOTED
Claire Harman on Linda Lear’s Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
Alice Echols on Gail Levin’s Becoming Judy Chicago: A Biography of the Artist
Rebecca Walker on Jennifer Baumgardner’s Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics
Douglas Mullins on Iain Anderson’s This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture
Matt Madden on Osamu Tezuka’s Ode to Kirihito
Woodrow Phoenix on Roland Kelts’s Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S.
MONOGRAPHS & CATALOGUES
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Robert A. M. Stern, David Fishman, and Jacob Tilove’s New York 2000: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Bicentennial and the Millennium
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Rainer Kahsnitz’s Carved Splendor: Late Gothic Altarpieces in Southern Germany, Austria, and South Tirol
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E. C. Segar’s Popeye, Volume l: “I Yam What I Yam”
