Dec/Jan 2008 • Table of Contents
TOP CAT
WENDY LESSER ON GIUSEPPE TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA
CRIMINAL ODES
JOHN BANVILLE ON PULP FICTION’S GOLDEN AGE
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COLM TÓIBÍN ON A BIOGRAPHY OF THE MATURE JAMES
MASTERING THE MASTER
PETER BROOKS ON THE LETTERS OF THE YOUNG HENRY JAMES
FEATURED REVIEWS
MARJORIE PERLOFF on JOHN ASHBERY’s Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems
GAL BECKERMAN on ORLANDO FIGES’s The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia
SIDDHARTHA DEB on J. M. COETZEE’s Diary of a Bad Year
PAUL MALISZEWSKI on MAX APPLE’s The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories
BILLY COLLINS on PIERRE BAYARD’s How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
FRAMING THE QUESTION
ERIC BANKS on ANI BOYAJIAN and MARK RUTKOSKI’s Stuart Davis: A Catalogue Raisonné, KATY SIEGEL on MARK GODFREY’s Abstraction and the Holocaust, GREGORY WILLIAMS on CLAUDIA MESCH and VIOLA MICHELY’s Joseph Beuys: The Reader
FICTION
JENIFER BERMAN on Lawrence Hill’s Someone Knows My Name
SCOTT BRADFIELD on Ronan Bennett’s Zugzwang
STEFANIE SOBELLE on Lydie Salvayre’s The Power of Flies
TAYT HARLIN on Jenny Erpenbeck’s The Book of Words
RACHEL AVIV on Nadine Gordimer’s Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black
MINNA PROCTOR on Stewart O’Nan’s Last Night at the Lobster
MUKUL KESAVAN on Romesh Gunesekera’s The Match
AMY ROSENBERG on Pascal Mercier’s Night Train to Lisbon
NICOLE RUDICK on Benjamin Percy’s Refresh, Refresh
ANDREW HULTKRANS on Steve Erickson’s Zeroville
HEATHER CALDWELL on Matthea Harvey’s Modern Life
AMY GERSTLER on Joyelle McSweeney’s Flet
TESS LEWIS on Paul Leppin’s Blaugast: A Novel of Decline
INTERVIEW
Bookforum talks with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
COLUMNS
COMING ATTRACTIONS
Youth Without Youth, the film; the Bookforum literary calendar
COLLECTIONS
Radhika Jones on John Freeman and Nicole Aragi
SHELF LIFE
Sam Kean on Tokyo’s Book Off
REWRITE
Gerald Howard on Cleo Birdwell
LUXURY & DEGRADATION
Rachel Shteir on Ethel Merman
ARTS & CULTURE
MUSIC
STEPHANIE HANSON on Alex Ross’s The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
MUSIC
JESSICA JOFFE on Charlotte Mosley’s The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
LATIN AMERICA
SUZANNE RUTA on Francisco Goldman’s The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
FILM
NOAH ISENBERG on Foster Hirsch’s Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King
LIZ BROWN on William Bruce Johnson’s Miracles and Sacrilege: Roberto Rossellini, the Church, and Film Censorship in Hollywood and Thomas Doherty’s Hollywood’s Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration
CULTURAL HISTORY
MATTHEW PRICE on Peter Gay’s Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond
INTERVIEW
Morris Dickstein talks with Lewis Dabney about Edmund Wilson
FOOD
MELANIE REHAK on Gillian Riley’s The Oxford Companion to Italian Food
LITERARY HISTORY
ANTHONY GRAFTON on William H. Sherman’s Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England
PHILOSOPHY
SAM STARK on Tamara Chaplin’s Turning On the Mind: French Philosophers on Television
MICHAEL ROTH on Sarah Kofman’s Selected Writings
WOMEN’S STUDIES
REBECCA WALKER on Kathy Davis’s The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminist Knowledge Travels Across Borders
NOTED
ALICE ECHOLS on Suzanne Braun Levine and Mary Thom’s Bella Abzug
MAURICE MANNING on Robert Morgan’s Boone: A Biography
ALAN LIGHT on David N. Meyer’s Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music
ALBERT MOBILIO on Robert Scotto’s Moondog, the Viking of 6th Avenue
TOM SPURGEON on Frank Santoro’s Storeyville
CHRISTINE SCHWARTZ HARTLEY on Willis Goth Regier’s In Praise of Flattery
TOM NAWROCKI on Ned Sublette’s The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
ALBERT MOBILIO on Donald Friedman’s The Writer’s Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers
MONOGRAPHS & CATALOGUES
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Edward Burtynsky’s Quarries
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Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu and Patrick Gries’s Evolution
