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    • EMPIRE BURLESQUE

      SCOTT MCLEMEE on ANTONIO NEGRI

    • THE ENIGMA OF SIR VIDIA

      ALLEN BARRA on V. S. NAIPAUL

    • CALAMITIES OF EXILE

      KEITH GESSEN on ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN AND EDWARD SAID

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      ROSS BENJAMIN on SÁNDOR MÁRAI

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    • LORRAINE ADAMS on Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips

    • MARIA TATAR on The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia by Laura Miller

    • ERIK DAVIS on My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian

    • VINCE PASSARO on Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth

    • ANDREA WALKER on The Sky Below by Stacey D’Erasmo

    • LENORA TODARO on All Aboard by Joe Ashby Porter

    • CERIDWEN DOVEY on Disquiet by Julia Leigh

    • BENJAMIN STRONG on Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun

    • CHRISTOPHER R. BEHA on Me and Kaminski by Daniel Kehlmann

    • JASON WEISS on Death with Interruptions by José Saramago

    • MATTHEW LADD on Factory of Tears by Valzhyna Mort

    • LEE ROURKE on Noir by Olivier Pauvert

    • ED PARK on Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine by Stanley Crawford

    • SARA IVRY on I Smile Back by Amy Koppelman

    • TOM ROBERGE on Livability by Jon Raymond

    • TOM LECLAIR on The Easy Chain by Evan Dara

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    • CRAIG SELIGMAN on Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947–1963 by Susan Sontag

    • BRIAN GILMORE on How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon by David R. Roediger and What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America by Ariela J. Gross

    • T. J. JACKSON LEARS on Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America’s Culture of Death by Mark S. Schantz and This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust

    • MICHAEL GORRA on The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples by Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller

    • ANN FRIEDMAN on Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women’s Reproduction in America by Jeanne Flavin and The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance and Democracy’s Future by Carol Gilligan and David A. J. Richards

    • DAVID KUSNET on Trucking Country: The Road to America’s Wal-Mart Economy by Shane Hamilton and A People’s History of Poverty in America by Stephen Pimpare

    • HANNAH BLOCH on Islamism in the Shadow of al-Qaeda by François Burgat and The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics by Faisal Devji

    • CHRIS LEHMANN on Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood

    • J. HOBERMAN on Tarkovsky edited by Nathan Dunne and Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema by Robert Bird

    • CHRISTINE SCHWARTZ HARTLEY on Le Corbusier: A Life by Nicholas Fox Weber

    • LAURA KIPNIS on Screening Sex by Linda Williams

    • GERD GEMÜNDEN on Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era edited by Noah Isenberg

    • JOHN ROCKWELL on John Zorn: Tradition and Transgression by John Brackett

    • KAREN EMMERICH on Surrealism in Greece: An Anthology edited by Nikos Stabakis

    • ANDREW HULTKRANS on Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton

    • MICHAEL ROTH on Four Jews on Parnassus—A Conversation: Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, Schönberg by Carl Djerassi

    • JAMES GIBBONS on A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns by John Yau

    • IAN VOLNER on Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles by Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly

    • MARTHA SCHWENDENER on A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World by Marcia Tucker

    • ALBERT MOBILIO on William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961–2008 by Elisabeth Sussman and Thomas Weski

    • DEB VANASSE on Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People by William L. Iggiagruk Hensley

    • BRIAN COOK on You Can’t Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America by John R. MacArthur

    • PAUL LA FARGE on The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons and Growing Up Strange by Mark Barrowcliffe

    • NICOLE RUDICK on The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet by David Okuefuna

    • NATASHA RANDALL on Dust by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko

    • NICOLE LANCTOT on Land 250 and Trois by Patti Smith

    • CRAIG MORGAN TEICHER on Letters to Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics, and Community edited by Jennifer Firestone and Dana Teen Lomax


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