Feb/Mar 2008 • Table of Contents
THE BEASTLY BEATITUDES OF DONALD B.
JAMES WOLCOTT ON DONALD BARTHELME
THE TEN-CENT PLAGUE
DAVID HAJDU ON THE COMIC-BOOK SCARE
ONE MORE ROUND
ERIC BANKS ON PATRICK HAMILTON
THE FABULOUS SCHIAFFINO BOYS
ROBERTO BOLAÑO, FROM NAZI LITERATURE IN THE AMERICAS
FEATURED REVIEWS
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
SVEN BIRKERTS on KNUT HAMSUN’s Hunger and Growth of the Soil
FICTION
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
BENJAMIN STRONG on Charles Bock’s Beautiful Children
EMILY CHENOWETH on Eli Gottlieb’s Now You See Him
INTERVIEW
Bookforum talks with Jerome Charyn
COLUMNS
COMING ATTRACTIONS
Paranoid Park, the film; the Bookforum literary calendar
COLLECTIONS
Adriana V. López on Edith Grossman
SHELF LIFE
Hazel Rowley on Paris’s Village Voice
REWRITE
Alexander Waugh on Kingsley Amis
LUXURY & DEGRADATION
Melanie Rehak on Jennifer 8. Lee’s The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
ARTS & CULTURE
BRIAN SHOLIS on Eric G. Wilson’s Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy
HISTORY
NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN on Hugh Wilford’s The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America
BIOGRAPHY
MATTHEW PRICE on Richard M. Cook’s Alfred Kazin: A Biography
DONALD WEBER on Philip Davis’s Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life
PHOTOGRAPHY
DARIUS HIMES on Max Kozloff’s The Theatre of the Face: Portrait Photography Since 1900
CRITICAL THEORY
NATHAN HELLER on Alice Becker-Ho and Guy Debord’s A Game of War
NOTED
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
ESSAYS
NICK TOSCHES on George Steiner’s My Unwritten Books
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
