COLUMNS
Life, or Something Like It
DANIEL MORRIS on Giorgio Agamben
Accidental Wisdom
CRAIG CALHOUN on Robert Merton and Elinor Barber
State of Suspension
MINNA PROCTOR on Yoel Hoffmann
Aruna D’Souza on pop art historians
Brian Lennon: A Response to Sven Birkerts
Andrew Ross: Weather Report
LUXURY AND DEGRADATION David Rimanelli on Walter de la Mare’s Memoirs of a Midget
SAM LIPSYTE on Thomas Berger’s Adventures of the Artificial Woman
CRAIG SELIGMAN on Colm Tóibín’s The Master
JOHN PALATTELLA on Kenneth Fearing’s Selected Poems
BENJAMIN ANASTAS on Henry Green’s Pack My Bag
ROB SPILLMAN on Hari Kunzru’s Transmission
JAMES PONIEWOZIK on Paul Cody’s Shooting the Heart
FRANCISCO GOLDMAN on Ignacio Padilla’s Antipodes
JENIFER BERMAN on Sabina Murray’s A Carnivore’s Inquirty
PETER TRACHTENBERG on Patrick McGrath’s Port Mungo
JOHN BANVILLE on Evan S. Connell’s The Diary of a Rapist
KEN KALFUS on Bernard Malamud’s The Fixer
TOM VANDERBILT on Valentin Groebner’s Defaced: The Visual Culture of Violence in the Late Middle Ages
MATTHEW PRICE on Edward W. Said’s Humanism and Democratic Criticism and Frank Kermode’s Pleasure and Change: The Aesthetics of Canon
MICHAEL ROTH on Richard Wolin’s The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism
SARAH KERR on Craig Seligman’s Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me
EMILIE BICKERTON on David H. Price’s Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI’s Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists and William J. Peace’s Leslie A. White: Evolution and Revolution in Anthropology
KEN KURSON on James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations
TOM HOLERT on Joseph Dumit’s Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity
NICO ISRAEL on Charity Scribner’s Requiem for Communism
Christine Macel, ed., Sophie Calle
Phillip Lopate, Rudy Burckhardt
Jake and Dinos Chapman, Insult to Injury
Anne Nishimura Morse et al., Art of the Japanese Postcard
Darcy Cosper on Lucy Corin’s Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls
Max Winter on Jeff Clark’s Music and Suicide
Suzan Sherman on Stacey D’Erasmo’s A Seahorse Year
Nina Mehta on Jonathan Raymond’s The Half-Life
Barry Schwabsky on Annemarie Sauzeau Boetti’s Alighiero e Boetti: Shaman-Showman
Nicole Rudick on Alexander M. Schenker’s The Bronze Horseman: Falconet’s Monument to Peter the Great
Jennifer Liese on Amelia Jones’s Irrational Modernism: A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada