COLUMNS
DISASTER OF DISGUISE
Gary Indiana on Emmanuel Carrère
LIE, MEMORY
Paul Maliszewski on Michael Chabon and the Holocaust
Robert Lowell, from The Letters of Robert Lowell
Virginia Rutledge: Creative License
James Surowiecki: A Fan’s Notes
Tom Nawrocki talks with Ralph Steadman
Robert Polito: Shooting the Piano Player
Andrew Hultkrans on wrestling with the truth
Bookforum talks with A. L. Kennedy
Jonathan Raymond on Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Jay Jennings on Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
Darcy Cosper on Amy Hempel’s The Dog of the Marriage
Vince Passaro on Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore
Bruce Bawer on Guy Davenport (1927–2005)
Amanda Schaffer on Martha Cooley’s Thirty-Three Swoons
John Banville on Michel Houellebecq and H. P. Lovecraft
Michael Pye on Dan Sleigh’s Islands
Greg Bottoms on Damon Galgut’s The Good Doctor and The Quarry
David Farber on Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson’s Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism
Emilie Bickerton on Pascale Casanova’s The World Republic of Letters
Michael Roth on Martin Jay’s Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme
Tom Vanderbilt on Meredith L. Clausen’s The Pan Am Building and the Shattering of the Modernist Dream
Rhonda Lieberman on Emily D. Bilski and Emily Braun’s Jewish Women and Their Salons: The Power of Conversation
David Rimanelli on John Ruskin’s Praeterita
Michael O’Donnell on Philip Short’s Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare
Christopher Cardozo, Edward S. Curtis: The Women
Bonnie Yochelson, Esther Bubley: On Assignment
Janet Bishop et al., Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective
Ingrid Schaffner, Accumulated Vision: Barry Le Va
Gordana Fontana Giusti and Patrick Schumacher, eds., Zaha Hadid
Radhika Jones on Marc Estrin’s The Education of Arnold Hitler
Martha Kinney on Ander Monson’s Other Electricities
Marcela Valdes on Emmanuel Dongala’s Johnny Mad Dog
Harvey Pekar on Alex Baladi’s Frankenstein Now and Forever
Oliver Broudy on Rana Dasgupta’s Tokyo Cancelled
Suzan Sherman on Yona Zeldis McDonough’s In Dahlia’s Wake
Cynthia Hyla Whittaker on Julie A. Buckler’s Mapping St. Petersburg: Imperial Text and Cityshape
Rubén Martínez on Héctor Tobar’s Translation Nation: American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States
Dan Adler on J. M. Mancini’s Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show
Carol Brightman on M. G. Lord’s Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science