June/July/Aug 2007 • Table of Contents
SOUL INSPECTOR
Luc Sante on Georges Simenon
IGNITION SWITCH
Jonathan Shainin on car bombs and suicide bombing
ADAPT THIS
Phillip Lopate on fiction into film
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Reflections by James Ivory, Elmore Leonard, Tracy Chevalier, Patrick McGrath, Jerry Stahl, Michael Tolkin, Susanna Moore, Tim Krabbe, Irvine Welsh, Barry Gifford, Alexander Payne, Myla Goldberg, and Frederic Raphael
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Best adaptations by Francine Prose, Joy Press, Geoffrey O’Brien, Robert Polito, Luc Sante, Stephanie Zacharek, Steve Erickson, Molly Haskell, Armond White, J. Hoberman, Bilge Ebiri, and Drake Stutesman
FEATURED REVIEWS
Michael Wood on Don Delillo's Falling Man
David Levi Strauss on Photography and suffering
Matthew Price on Ryszard Kapuscinski Travels with Herodotus
Alex Abramovich on Leonard Michaels's The Collected Stories and Sylvia
James Surowiecki on Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Eric Banks on Marianne Wiggins's The Shadow Catcher
Jon Raymond on Michael Ondaatje's Divisadero
Ross Benjamin on Peter Handke's Crossing the Sierra de Gredos
FICTION
Geoff Nicholson on Jeremy Reed's A Stranger on Earth: The Life and Work of Anna Kavan
Andrea Walker on Tessa Hadley’s The Master Bedroom
Tom LeClair on Matt Ruff’s Bad Monkeys
Amy Gerstler on Miranda July’s No One Belongs Here More than You
Benjamin Strong on Richard Lange's Dead Boys
Paul Maliszewski on Alexander Theroux’s Laura Warholic; or The Sexual Intellectual
Ed Park on Matthew Sharpe's Jamestown
Heather Havrilesky on Jack Pendarvis's Your Body Is Changing
Nina Mehta on Viken Berberian’s Das Kapital: A Novel of Love and Money Markets
Lenora Todaro on Elfriede Jelinek’s Greed
Stefanie Sobelle on Gabriel Josipovici’s Goldberg: Variations
Michael Pye on Willem Frederik Hermans’s Beyond Sleep
INTERVIEW
Bookforum talks with Andrew O'Hagan
COLUMNS
COMING ATTRACTIONS
Translating comic books for the screen; book trailers; the Bookforum literary calendar
SHELF LIFE
Eric Banks on Berlin's Autorenbuchhandlung
COLLECTIONS
Radhika Jones on Kurt Andersen
LUXURY & DEGRADATION
Tom Nawrocki on Fats Domino
ARTS & CULTURE
BIOGRAPHY
Clive Fisher on Martin Duberman’s The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein
SPORTS
Gerald Early on Tommie Smith and David Steele's Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith and Gary Sheffield and David Ritz's Inside Power
PERFORMANCE
Melissa Harris on Carolyn Brown’s Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham
HISTORY
Nicholas von Hoffman on Kenneth D. Ackerman's Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties and Burton Hersh's Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-Off Between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover That Transformed America
CRITICAL THEORY
Janine Armin on Wayne Koestenbaum’s Hotel Theory
PHILOSOPHY
Michael Roth on Jean-Luc Nancy’s Multiple Arts: The Muses II and The Ground of the Image
CRITICAL THEORY
Scott McLemee on Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis, and Slavoj Zizek’s Lenin Reloaded: Toward a Politics of Truth
HISTORY
David Greenberg on Michael A. Lerner’s Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City
NOTED
Valerie Steiker on Shocking Life: The Autobiography of Elsa Schiaparelli
Matt Madden on Rutu Modan's Exit Wounds
Cynthia Carr on Danny Lyon’s Like a Thief’s Dream
Carla Blumenkranz on Anne Fadiman’s At Large and At Small
Liz Brown on Rebecca Solnit’s Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
Johannah Rodgers on Emily Cockayne’s Hubbub: Filth, Noise and Stench in England, 1600–1770
Albert Mobilio on Samuel Beckett CDs
Jesse Lichtenstein on David R. Montgomery's Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
