Archive

Apr/May 2011

Features
Up Front
- RIAN MALAN: R. W. Johnson's South Africa's Brave New World: The Beloved Country Since the End of Apartheid, Peter Godwin's The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe, and Stephen Chan's Southern Africa: Old Treacheries and New Deceits
- DAPHNE MERKIN: Margaux Fragoso's Tiger, Tiger
- MATTHEW PRICE: Adam Hochschild's To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918
- LEO ROBSON: Chris Adrian's The Great Night
Columns
- THE ACCIDENTALIST
  
  MICHAEL GREENBERG on familial estrangement
- FOOD
  
  MELANIE REHAK: Grant Achatz's Life, on the Line
- LUXURY & DEGRADATION
  
  GERALD HOWARD on the cult film Performance
Fiction
Monographs
- ALBERT MOBILIO: Andrew Kuo's What Me Worry
Nonfiction
- ART
  
  NATHAN LEE: Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward's Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture
- ECONOMICS
  
  MAUREEN TKACIK: Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo's Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, Peter Corning's The Fair Society: The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice, and Tomáš Sedláček's Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street
- POLITICS
  
  ALEX PAREENE: Andrew Breitbart's Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!
- CHRONICLES
  
  HUA HSU: Ai Weiwei's Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006–2009
- TECHNOLOGY
  
  CHARLES PETERSEN: Siva Vaidhyanathan's The Googlization of Everything (and Why We Should Worry)
- FASHION
  
  JENNA SAUERS: Yohji Yamamoto and Ai Mitsuda's My Dear Bomb and Ligaya Salazar's Yohji Yamamoto
- MEDIA
  
  LINDA DELIBERO: Carrie Pitzulo's Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy
- CORRESPONDENCE
  
  SCOTT MCLEMEE: Rosa Luxemburg's Letters
- MUSIC
  
  JOHANNA FATEMAN: Dorian Lynskey's 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day and David W. Stowe's No Sympathy for the Devil: Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism
- MUSIC
  
  KOLBY YARNELL: John Szwed's Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World
- ENVIRONMENT
  
  AMANDA LITTLE: Alexis Madrigal's Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology
Noted
- DARRELL HARTMAN: Anne Roiphe's Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust Without Reason
- MIRIAM KATZ: Demetri Martin's This Is a Book
- TIMOTHY FARRINGTON: Joshua Foer's Moonwalking with Einstein
- JANINE ARMIN: Chris Kraus's Where Art Belongs
- ROB SPILLMAN: Georges Perec's The Art and Craft of Approaching Your Head of Department to Submit a Request for a Raise
- JANE CIABATTARI: Francisco Goldman's Say Her Name
- FRANCES RICHARD: Alice Notley's Culture of One

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