COLUMNS
Sensation Under Glass
JAMES GIBBONS on Nathalie Sarraute
Finding the Right Words
MORRIS DICKSTEIN on Irving Howe
Poet Without a Hero
MARJORIE PERLOFF on Anna Akhmatova
BETWEEN THE LINES Naguib Mahfouz, Three Tales of the Supernatural
Brooke Comer talks with Ali Salem Ammar Abdulhamid on young Syrian intellectuals
James Surowiecki: A Fan’s Notes
The Bookforum Question
Robert Polito: Shooting the Piano Player
Brian Thomas Gallagher on M.F.K. Fisher
LUXURY AND DEGRADATION David Rimanelli on Fannie Hurst
ETHAN NOSOWSKY on Svetislav Basara’s Chinese Letter
KATHRYN HARRISON on Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead
LENORA TODARO on Alice Munro’s Runaway: Stories
RICK MOODY on José Saramago’s The Double
BRUCE HAINLEY on William Corbett’s Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler and Ron Padgett’s Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard
SVEN BIRKERTS on Imre Kertész’s Liquidation
KERRY FRIED on Michel Faber’s The Courage Consort
ART WINSLOW on Madison Smartt Bell’s The Stone That the Builder Refused, Master of the Crossroads, and All Souls’ Rising
DEIRDRE BAIR on Suzanne Kirkbright’s Karl Jaspers: A Biography—Navigations in Truth
BENEDICT ANDERSON on Herman Lebovics’s Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age and Andrew Ross and Kristin Ross’s Anti-Americanism
JENNIFER L. ROBERTS on Michael Leja’s Looking Askance: Skepticism and American Art from Eakins to Duchamp
DAVID M. LUBIN on David Rosand’s The Invention of Painting in America and David C. Ward’s Charles Willson Peale: Art and Selfhood in the Early Republic
ANDREW HULTKRANS on Sean Wilentz and Greil Marcus’s The Rose and the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad
TOM NAWROCKI on Bob Dylan’s Chronicles: Volume One
CHOIRE SICHA on Pam Tents’s Midnight at the Palace: My Life as a Fabulous Cockette
Manfred Leve, Leve Sieht Beuys: Block Beuys Photographs
Brandon K. Ruud, ed., Karl Bodmer’s North American Prints
Malcolm Warner and Robin Blake, Stubbs and the Horse
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, ed., Franz Kline 1910–1962
Bryan Walsh on Ma Jian’s The Noodle Maker
Gary Indiana on Robert Glück’s Denny Smith
Max Winter on Marjorie Welish’s Word Group
Nicole Rudick on Martha Kinney’s The Fall of Heartless Horse
Amanda Schaffer on Patricia Fara’s Sex, Botany and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks
Julia Bryan-Wilson on Jeff Kelley’s Childsplay: The Art of Allan Kaprow
James Poniewozik on Chris Lamb’s Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Editorial Cartoons in the United States
Marilyn Hunt on Terry Teachout’s All in the Dances: A Brief Life of George Balanchine