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  • Features

    • THE BEASTLY BEATITUDES OF DONALD B.

      JAMES WOLCOTT on DONALD BARTHELME

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      DAVID HAJDU on THE COMIC-BOOK SCARE

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      ERIC BANKS on PATRICK HAMILTON

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      ROBERTO BOLAÑO, FROM NAZI LITERATURE IN THE AMERICAS

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    • RICHARD LOCKE on PAT BARKER’s Life Class

    • SARAH KERR on MICHAEL POLLAN’s In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto

    • JAMES GIBBONS on SUSAN CHOI’s A Person of Interest

    • STEVEN G. KELLMAN on A. L. KENNEDY’s Day

    • GERALD EARLY on RANDALL KENNEDY’s Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal

    • PETER TERZIAN on WILLIAM MAXWELL’s Early Novels and Stories

    • JAMES SUROWIECKI on HA-JOON CHANG’s Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

    • JED RASULA on DARREN WERSHLER-HENRY and LORI EMERSON’s The Alphabet Game: A bpNichol Reader

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    • DRAKE STUTESMAN on Elias Khoury’s Yalo

    • NICOLE RUDICK on Ceridwen Dovey’s Blood Kin

    • LAURA STOKES on Yoko Ogawa’s The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

    • JOSEPH DONAHUE on Jay Wright’s The Guide Signs: Book One and Book Two

    • JEN BERVIN on Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s Nettles

    • JYOTI THOTTAM on Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age

    • CHRISTINE SMALLWOOD on Tony D’Souza’s The Konkans

    • POLLY SHULMAN on Samantha Hunt’s The Invention of Everything Else

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      MATTHEW PRICE on Richard M. Cook’s Alfred Kazin: A Biography

    • DONALD WEBER on Philip Davis’s Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life

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      DARIUS HIMES on Max Kozloff’s The Theatre of the Face: Portrait Photography Since 1900

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      NATHAN HELLER on Alice Becker-Ho and Guy Debord’s A Game of War

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      NICK TOSCHES on George Steiner’s My Unwritten Books

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      ANDY BATTAGLIA on Carl Wilson’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste

    • KIM TODD on Jonathan Rosen’s The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature

    • JASON WEISS on Julio Cortázar and Carol Dunlop’s Autonauts of the Cosmoroute: A Timeless Voyage from Paris to Marseille

    • WOODROW PHOENIX on Yuichi Yokoyama’s New Engineering

    • JOSCELYN JURICH on Joseph Horowitz’s Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts

    • RONNA JOHNSON on Bonnie Bremser’s Troia: Mexican Memoirs

    • ALBERT MOBILIO on the Great Bear pamphlet collection

    • VANESSA PLACE on Liz Kotz’s Words to Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art

    • JESSA CRISPIN on Julie Doucet’s 365 Days: A Diary

    • GEETA DAYAL on Eric Weisbard’s Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music

  • Monographs & Catalogues

    • Attila Csampai’s Callas: Images of a Legend

    • Mark Ovenden’s Transit Maps of the World

    • Karola Grässlin, Fabrice Hergott, and Alexander van Grevenstein’s André Cadere: Peinture sans fin


Punishing the Poor:

The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity

by Loïc Wacquant

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We Are All Moors:

Ending Centuries of Crusades against Muslims and Other Minorities

by Anouar Majid

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Jo Ann Callis:

Woman Twirling

by Judith Keller

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Natural Fashion:

Tribal Decoration from Africa

by Hans Silvester

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Big Machine:

A Novel

by Victor LaValle

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Architecture:

Elements, Materials, Form (Princeton Field Guides to Art)

by Francesca Prina

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Princeton
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One Ring Circus:

Dispatches from the World of Boxing

by Katherine Dunn

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Dan Graham:

Beyond

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MIT
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Sigmar Polke:

Axial Age Paintings

by Chrissie Iles and Sigmar Polke

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The Book Shopper:

A Life in Review

by Murray Browne

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