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William T. Vollmann on The Ethics of Photography
Tom Vanderbilt on Technology and The Suburbs
Wendy Lesser on Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor by Brad Gooch and Collected Works by Flannery O’Connor
Leland de la Durantaye on The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
David Gates on Nothing Right by Antonya Nelson
Daphne Merkin on Revolutionary Road, The Easter Parade, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates
Sarah L. Courteau on The Women by T. C. Boyle
Eliza Griswold on The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
Ben Ehrenreich on The Siege by Ismail Kadare
Jessica Joffe on Book of Clouds by Chloe Aridjis
Barry Schwabsky on Sens-Plastique by Malcolm de Chazal
Sarah Kerr on The Believers by Zoë Heller
Laird Hunt on The Way Through Doors by Jesse Ball
Stacey Levine on Lowboy by John Wray
Mark Sarvas on Out of My Skin by John Haskell
Amy Rosenberg on In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Britt Peterson on The Wilderness by Samantha Harvey
Sarah Fay on American Rust by Philipp Meyer
Brooke Horvath on Passing Through by Tom LeClair
Robert P. Baird on Terra Lucida by Joseph Donahue
Chris Lehmann on Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
Stefanie Sobelle on Amberville by Tim Davys
David Haglund on The Theory of Light and Matter by Andrew Porter
Prophet Margin: Keith Gessen on Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Presidential biopics and Gomorrah
Bookforum talks with Richard Prince
Bookforum talks with Mary Gaitskill
Walter Benn Michaels on the end of boom culture
Rhonda Lieberman on Jews and shoes
Terence Riley on The Philip Johnson Tapes: Interviews by Robert A. M. Stern edited by Kazys Varnelis
George Scialabba on The Wreck of Western Culture: Humanism Revisited and The Existential Jesus by John Carroll
Gideon Lewis-Kraus on The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann and The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia by James Palmer
Seth Hettena on Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century by P. W. Singer and Planet Google: One Company’s Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know by Randall Stross
Edward J. Larson on Darwin’s Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin’s Views on Human Evolution by Adrian Desmond and James Moore and Banquet at Delmonico’s: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America by Barry Werth
Rochelle Gurstein on The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution by Denis Dutton
Dean Baker on The Foreclosure of America by Adam Michaelson
Robert Bryce on The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes by Bryan Burrough
Salim Muwakkil on What Obama Means . . . For Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future by Jabari Asim
Richard Byrne on Every Fury on Earth by John H. Summers
Katherine Pence on Synthetic Socialism: Plastics and Dictatorship in the German Democratic Republic by Eli Rubin
Michael Roth on Hegel, Haiti and Universal History by Susan Buck-Morss
Andy Battaglia on TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television by Lynn Spigel
Hua Hsu on Fakers: Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders by Paul Maliszewski
Laura Jacobs on Ballet’s Magic Kingdom: Selected Writings on Dance in Russia, 1911–1925 by Akim Volynsky
Virginia Anderson on Cornelius Cardew (1936–1981): A Life Unfinished by John Tilbury
Deborah Jowitt on The New Music Theater: Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body by Eric Salzman and Thomas Desi
Dan Nadel on Herbie Archives by Shane O’Shea and Ogden Whitney
Christopher Cox on The Dynamite Club: How a Bombing in Fin-de-Siècle Paris Ignited the Age of Modern Terror by John Merriman
Tayt Harlin on Report on Myself by Grégoire Bouillier
Michelle Kuo on The Human Argument: The Writings of Agnes Denes edited by Klaus Ottmann
Polly Watson on For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell
Nicole Rudick on Daniel Johnston by Jad Fair, Philippe Vergne, and Harvey Pekar
Albert Mobilio on Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting by Kitty Burns Florey
Joe McCulloch on Gus & His Gang by Chris Blain
Philip Tinari on New China New Art by Richard Vine