Apr/May 2007 • Table of Contents
A TRIBE OF HIS OWN
Matthew Price on Ralph Ellison
BURNING BRIGHT
Clive Fisher on Carl Van Vechten
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Hazel Rowley on Beauvoir, Brazil, and "Christina T"
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Sarah Glazer on A Second Sex
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Toril Moi on Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman
FEATURED REVIEWS
Alex Abramovich on Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives
Sarah Kerr on Thomas McNamee's Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution
Ben Marcus on Lydia Davis's Varieties of Disturbance
Alissa Quart on Jon Savage's Teenage:The Creation of Youth Culture
Benjamin Anastas on Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Mark Rudman on Zbigniew Herbert's The Collected Poems: 1956–1998
Marjorie Perloff on Peter Cole's The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950 - 1492
John Lichfield on Nicolas Sarkozy's Testimony: France in the Twenty-first Century
Richard Locke on Clive James's Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
David Rimanelli on Jeff Wall's Selected Essays and Interviews
FICTION
Christopher R. Beha on John Crowley's Endless Things
David L. Ulin on Jim Crace's The Pesthouse
Peter Terzian on Nathan Englander's The Ministry of Special Cases
Karen Karbo on Cathleen Schine's The New Yorkers
Suzan Sherman on Maxine Swann's Flower Children
Kathryn Lewis on Dinaw Mengestu's The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Christopher Sorrentino on Richard Flanagan's The Unknown Terrorist
Gideon Lewis-Kraus on Howard Jacobson's Kalooki Nights
Laird Hunt on Clare Clark's The Nature of Monsters
Johnny Temple on Phil LaMarche's American Youth
INTERVIEW
Bookforum talks with A. M. Homes
COLUMNS
COMING ATTRACTIONS
Transforming Alice Munro's prose for the big screen; the Longfellow stamp; Jim Crace's fake book; the Bookforum literary calendar
COLLECTIONS
Elizabeth Schambelan on Ira Silverberg
SHELF LIFE
Justin Spring Interviews Nicols Fox
FOCUS
Emily Warn on new poetry titles
LAST WORD
Noah Isenberg interviews Jörg Friedrich
LUXURY & DEGRADATION
Paul Maliszewski on Clifford Irving's The Hoax
ARTS & CULTURE
BELLES LETTRES
Rebecca Mead on James Attlee's Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey
BIOGRAPHY
Melanie Rehak on John Stubb's John Donne: The Reformed Soul
LITERARY CRITICISM
Paul Grimstad on Joan Richardson's A Natural History of Pragmatism: The Fact of Feeling From Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein
LITERARY HISTORY
Wayne Koestenbaum on Stéphane Mallarmé's Divagations
PSYCHOANALYSIS
Michael Roth on Brenda Maddox's Freud's Wizard: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis
JOURNALISM
Eliza Griswold on Carolin Emcke's Echoes of Violence: Letters from a War Reporter
SPORTS
Tom Nawrocki on Robert P. Moncreiff's Bart Giamatti: A Profile
NOTED
Joscelyn Jurich on Christa Wolf's One Day a Year: 1960 - 2000
Barbara Bloom on Patricia Vigderman's The Memory Palace of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Christine Schwartz Hartley on André Schiffrin's A Political Education: Coming of Age in Paris and New York
Karin L. Kross on Aline Kominsky Crumb's Need More Love: A Graphic Memoir
Woodrow Phoenix on Kim Deitch's Alias the Cat
Andrea Walker on Lauren M. E. Goodlad and Michael Bibby's Goth: Undead Subculture and Catherine Spooner's Contemporary Gothic
MONOGRAPHS & CATALOGUES
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Brooke Davis Anderson's Martín Ramírez
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Sandra Q. Firmin and Julie Joyce's Mudman: The Odyssey of Kim Jones
