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Science in the kitchen; hip-hop and hustling in Queens; The Elements of Style in lyrics; Q&A with Pamela Des Barres
George M. Marsden on Christian fundamentalism since the 1970s
Focus: New York
David Rimanelli on Lytton Strachey
Michael Tolkin on Rick Moody’s The Diviners
Paul Maliszewski on Michael Martone’s Unconventions: Attempting the Art of Craft and the Craft of Art and Michael Martone
Jenifer Berman on Kathryn Davis’s The Thin Place
Marjorie Perloff on Elias Canetti’s Party in the Blitz: The English Years
Geoffrey O’Brien on Oakley Hall’s Warlock
Rebecca Reich on Kornei Chukovsky’s Diary, 1901–1969
Jon Raymond on James Meek’s The People’s Act of Love
Emily Barton on Sesshu Foster’s Atomik Aztex
Marcela Valdes on Joanna Scott’s Liberation
Scott McLemee on Roland Barthes’s The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France (1977–1978)
Nico Israel on Jacques Derrida’s Paper Machine
Clare Cavanagh on Czeslaw Milosz’s Legends of Modernity: Essays and Letters from Occupied Poland, 1942–1943
Stephanie Hanson on Mike Heffley’s Northern Sun, Southern Moon: Europe’s Reinvention of Jazz, George McKay’s Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain, and Mike Zwerin’s The Parisian Jazz Chronicles: An Improvisational Memoir
Kate Bolick on Paula Fox’s The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe
David Rosand on Erwin Panofsky’s The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer
Joy Connolly on The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition
William H. Beezley on Claudio Lomnitz’s Death and the Idea of Mexico
David Yaffe on Eric J. Sundquist’s Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America
Julia Bryan-Wilson on Shades of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain, Kerry James Marshall: One True Thing, Meditations on Black Aesthetics, and Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970
Richard Meyer on Coco Fusco and Brian Wallis’s Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self
Francine Weiss on Marian Wardle’s American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910–1945
Darcy Cosper on Jenefer Shute’s User I.D.
Paul Grimstad on Maurice G. Dantec’s Babylon Babies
Douglas Mullins on John Barth’s Where Three Roads Meet
Martha Kinney on Stacey Levine’s Frances Johnson
Dale Smith on David Meltzer’s David’s Copy: The Selected Poems of David Meltzer
Harvey Pekar on Aidan Higgins’s Scenes from a Receding Past
Bruce Sterling on Daniel H. Wilson’s How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion
Martha Schwendener on John Updike’s Still Looking: Essays on American Art
Liz Brown on Darlene Harbour Unrue’s Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist