COLUMNS
Invisible Lit: Mark Dery on Saddam Hussein, romance novelist
Going Global: Daniel Pinchbeck on the perils of globalization
Interview: Allan Robbe-Grillet talks with Tom McGonigle
Good Humor Man: Meghan O’Rourke on Kenneth Koch
Fiction Forecast by Kera Bolonik
First Novels by Darcy Cosper
Show Me the Money: Peter Plagens on art and commerce
Exploded View: Tom Vanderbilt on industrial architecture and Earthworks
The Young and the Listless: Anuj Desai on kids these days
Jenifer Berman on Behindlings, by Nicola Barker
Claire Messud on Paris Stories, by Mavis Gallant
Francine Prose on On Being Ill, by Virginia Woolf
Joseph Donahue on Selected Poems, by Giuseppe Ungaretti, translated by Andrew Frisardi
Jim Gibbons on Dark Property, by Brian Evenson
Joseph McElroy on The Time of Our Singing, by Richard Powers
Patrick McGrath on Shroud, by John Banville
Yona Zeldis McDonough on Property, by Valerie Martin
Peter Plagens on Exquisite Corpse, by Robert Irwin
Myla Goldberg on A Box of Matches, by Nicholson Baker
Lee Smith on Abandon, by Pico Iyer
Molly Nesbit on Immemory, by Chris Marker
Arthur C. Danto on The Unknown Night: The Genius and Madness of R.A. Blakelock, An American Painter, by Glyn Vincent
David Toop on Yes Yes Y’all: The Experience Music Project Oral History of Hip-Hop’s First Decade, by Jim Fricke and Charlie Ahearn
Luc Sante on Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes, by Sylvie Simmons
Shelley Jackson on Pox: Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilis, by Deborah Hayden
Howard Hampton on The Manchurian Candidate, by Greil Marcus
Minna Proctor on On the Natural History of Destruction, by W.G. Sebald
Jon Raymond on Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution, 1963-1975, by Patrick Rosenkranz
Geoffrey O’Brien on A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking, by Samuel Fuller, introduction by Martin Scorcese
Luc Sante on River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, by Rebecca Solnit
Maggie Paley on Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It, by Geoff Dyer
Carlo McCormick on Alternative Art New York, 1965-1985, edited by Julie Ault
Jeff Gibson on Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual, by Lynn Gamwell