COLUMNS
Unearthing a culinary treasure; Erle Loran’s Cézanne; Billy Collins greets Catullus; Q&A on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
Virginia Rutledge: Creative License
Vladimir Jankovic on natural disasters and blame
Brent Hayes Edwards on Kamau Brathwaite’s Born to Slow Horses
René Steinke on Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus and Jeanette Winterson’s Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
Albert Mobilio on Stephen Wright’s The Amalgamation Polka
Maurice Manning on Verlyn Klinkenborg’s Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile
Francine Prose on Anita Brookner’s Leaving Home
Eric Banks on Claire Harman’s Myself and the Other Fellow: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
Joy Press on Deborah Eisenberg’s Twilight of the Superheroes
Mark Swartz on Emily Barton’s Brookland
David Bowman on Jay McInerney’s The Good Life
Marcela Valdes on Joanna Scott’s Liberation
Tom Holert on Edgar Morin’s The Cinema, or the Imaginary Man and The Stars
Ilan Pappe on Norman G. Finkelstein’s Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History
John Mack Faragher on Kerry A. Trask’s Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart of America and Stuart Banner’s How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier
Michael Roth on Bernard-Henri Lévy’s American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville
Kent Jones on Marshall Fine’s Accidental Genius: How John Cassavetes Invented the American Independent Film
Gerd Gemünden on Johannes von Moltke’s No Place Like Home: Locations of Heimat in German Cinema
Noah Isenberg on Stephen D. Youngkin’s The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre
Gary Indiana on Luigi Pirandello’s Shoot! The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Cinematograph Operator
Joan Richardson on Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson’s The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Louis Auchincloss on Michael Rosenthal’s Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler
James Meyer on Briony Fer’s The Infinite Line: Re-Making Art After Modernism
Alexi Worth on Peter Ackroyd’s J. M. W. Turner
Kadee Robbins, Peter Doig: Works on Paper
Mary Ellen Mark, Falkland Road: Prostitutes of Bombay
Antony Penrose, ed., Lee Miller’s War
Slide Show: The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt
Killoffer, Six Hundred and Seventy-Six Apparitions of Killoffer
Radhika Jones on Dara Horn’s The World to Come
Stacey Levine on Kenneth Goldsmith’s The Weather
Brian Evenson on Richard Kalich’s Charlie P
Darcy Cosper on Heather McGowan’s Duchess of Nothing
Eileen Myles on Michelle Tea’s Rose of No Man’s Land
Irene Gammel on Tom Sandqvist’s Dada East: The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire
Stephanie Hanson on Brian Priestley’s Chasin’ the Bird: The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker
Nancy Princenthal on Betty Bright’s No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America, 1960–1980
Rebecca Donner on Kate Braverman’s Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles: An Accidental Memoir
Nicole Rudick on Nikolaï Maslov’s Siberia