COLUMNS
Workman’s Composition
MATTHEW PRICE on V.S. Pritchett
Semper FYI
IAIN BOYD WHYTE on Gottfried Semper
Righting Copyright
ROBERT S. BOYNTON on Fair Use and “Digital Environmentalism”
Art of Self-Defense
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI on Witold Gombrowicz
Bettina Funcke talks with Peter Sloterdijk
Boris Vian, from Manual of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Robert Polito: Shooting the Piano Player
Andrew Ross: Weather Report
Jacqueline Rose, from The Question of Zion
James Surowiecki: A Fan’s Notes
Bookies
David Rimanelli on Gustave Flaubert
CHARLES BERNSTEIN on Jackson Mac Low (1922–2004)
PETER TRACHTENBERG on John Edgar Widerman’s God’s Gym: Stories, Brothers and Keepers, and Philadelphia Fire
NICOLE RUDICK on Andreï Makine’s The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme
PHILIP LOPATE on Louis Auchincloss’s East Side Story
MARY V. DEARBORN on René Steinke’s Holy Skirts
DAVID BOWMAN on Steve Erickson’s Our Ecstatic Days
EMILY BARTON on Judy Budnitz’s Nice Big American Baby
KAREN KARBO on Francine Prose’s A Changed Man
DANIEL GREEN on Stephen Dixon’s Old Friends
THOMAS MCGONIGLE on Uwe Johnson’s A Trip to Klagenfurt: In the Footsteps of Ingeborg Bachmann
EMILIE BICKERTON on Ulf Hannerz’s Soulside: Inquiries into Ghetto Culture and Community
Christopher S. Wood on David Summers’s Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism
MARGARITA TUPITSYN on Toni Stoos’s Ilya Kabakov: Installations: Catalogue Raisonné, 1983–2000 and Boris Mikhallov’s Look At Me, I Look At Water . . . or Perversion of Repose
RICHARD MEYER on Gregg Bordowitz’s The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986–2003
SCOTT SAUL on Stephen J. Bottoms’s Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off Broadway Movement
DANIEL MORRIS on Eli Friedlander’s J.J. Rousseau: An Afterlife of Words
Pamela Kort, ed., Cosmic Grotesque: Wit and Mockery in German Art, 1870–1940
Hans-Ulrich Obrist, ed., Do It
Thomas S. Hansen, Classic Book Jackets: The Design Legacy of George Salter
Philip Jodidio, Ando: Complete Works
Lynne Tillman on Vedrana Rudan’s Night
Darcy Cosper on Sam Lipsyte’s Home Land
Ha-yun Jung on Yom Sang-seop’s Three Generations
Reena Jana on Germano Celant’s Architecture and Arts 1900–2004: A Century of Creative Projects in Building, Design Cinema, Painting, Photography, Sculpture
Joseph Witek on Ho Che Anderson’s King
Brian Paul Clamp on Mark Rice’s Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s