COLUMNS
David Rimanelli on William Hazlitt’s “On the Pleasure of Hating”
Nick Tosches: Back to Newark
Virginia Rutledge: Creative License
Scott Saul on Jonestown
Gary Indiana on Gavin Lambert
Robert Polito: Shooting the Piano Player
Phillip Lopate on Lewis M. Dabney’s Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature
Sam Lipsyte on George Saunders’s The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
Greg Bottoms on Tim Winton’s The Turning
Ken Kalfus on Rafi Zabor’s I, Wabenzi: A Souvenir. Volume One: Aporia
Minna Proctor on Mary Gaitskill’s Veronica
Suzanne Ruta on Mouloud Feraoun’s The Poor Man’s Son: Menrad, Kabyle Schoolteacher
Joseph Donahue on Gustaf Sobin’s The Places As Preludes
Jennifer Egan on Sarah Hall’s The Electric Michelangelo
Alex Abramovich on Walter Kirn’s Mission to America
Mukul Kesavan on Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown
Jennifer L. Roberts on Thomas Eakins’s A Drawing Manual and Henry Adams’s Eakins Revealed: The Secret Life of an American Artist
Colleen McDannell on Rebecca Sullivan’s Visual Habits: Nuns, Feminism, and American Postwar Popular Culture
Ilan Pappe on Idith Zertal’s Israel’s Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood
Mark M. Anderson on Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume One
Deirdre Bair on Vivian Gornick’s The Solitude of Self: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Fierce Attachments
Gerald Early on Mel Watkins’s Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry
Daniel Swift on Robert Boynton’s The New New Journalism: Conversations with America’s Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft, Marc Weingarten’s The Gang That Wouldn’t Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, and the New Journalism Revolution
Lorin Stein on Peter Guralnick’s Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke
Arthur C. Danto on Jed Perl’s New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century
Lee Smith on Dane Kennedy’s The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World
Clément Chéroux et al., The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult
Nicholson Baker and Margaret Brentano, The World on Sunday: Graphic Art in Joseph Pulitzer’s Newspaper (1898–1911)
Peter Kuper on Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s The Push Man and Other Stories
Lauren Sanders on Ali Liebegott’s The Beautifully Worthless
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on Martha Southgate’s Third Girl From the Left
Christopher R. Beha on Nick McDonell’s The Third Brother
Radhika Jones on Melanie Rehak’s Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
Geeta Dayal on James Greer’s Guided By Voices, A Brief History
Jason Gross on Jean Pierre Lion’s Bix: The Definitive Biography of a Jazz Legend
David Levi Strauss on Eliot Weinberger’s What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles