COLUMNS
F for Effort
ROBERT S. BOYNTON on the critics of Brown v. Board of Education
Twilight of the Idol
STEPHEN J. CAMPBELL on Joseph Leo Koerner
American Friction
BENJAMIN ANASTAS on Philip Roth
BOOKIES Jennifer Allen on Revolver
BETWEEN THE LINES Mark Rothko, from The Artist’s Reality
Virginia Rutledge on intellectual property
James Surowiecki: A Fan’s Notes
David Hajdu profiles Marjane Satrapi
Adam Zagajewski, from A Defense of Ardor
The Bookforum Question
Robert Polito: Shooting the Piano Player
BOOKIES Eric Banks talks with Marshall Sahlins
LUXURY AND DEGRADATION Rhonda Lieberman on foodie books
VINCE PASSARO on Russell Banks’s The Darling
JOSEPH DONAHUE on Robert Kelly’s Lapis
SHELLEY JACKSON on David Ohle’s Motorman and The Age of Sinatra
MARK SWARTZ on Neil Jordan’s Shade
GEOFF NICHOLSON on T.C. Boyle’s The Inner Circle
PAUL MALISZEWSKI on Scott Bradfield’s Good Girl Wants It Bad
DANI SHAPIRO on Elena Poniatowska’s The Skin of the Sky
CLAIRE MESSUD on Francisco Goldman’s The Divine Husband
BRANDON STOSUY on Dodie Bellamy’s The Letters of Mina Harker and Pink Steam
MICHAEL ROTH on Stanley Cavell’s Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life and Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes
GABRIEL SANDERS on Slavenka Drakulić They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague
DANA STEVENS on Judith Butler’s Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
TOM VANDERBILT on Alastair Gordon’s Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Revolutionary Structure
BARRY SCHWABSKY on Guy Brett’s Carnival of Perception: Selected Writings on Art
STEVEN HENRY MADOFF on Doris von Drathen’s Vortex of Silence: Proposition for an Art Criticism Beyond Aesthetic Categories
Roni Horn, Wonderwater (Alice Offshore)
Christopher Wool, East Broadway Breakdown
Germano Celant, Piero Manzoni: Catalogo Generale
Hannah Höch, Album
Maxine Swann on Sarah Shun-Lien Hynum’s Madeleine Is Sleeping
Darcy Cosper on Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm, A Weekend
Lisa Shea on Wayne Koestenbaum’s Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes
Meghan O’Rourke on Adrienne Rich’s The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000–2004
Klaus Kertess on Masayo Duus’s The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey Without Borders
Michael Duncan on Susan Manning’s Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion
Jonathan Raymond on Gerard Jones’s Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book