COLUMNS
Bookies: Nicole Rudick on Fantagraphics
Luxury & Degradation: Toni Bentley on Writer of O
A Prairie Home Companion, the film; San Francisco’s Beat Museum; Q&A on the World Cup; Rhonda Lieberman on Proustiana
Carter Scholz on Julie Phillips’s James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
Benjamin Anastas on John Updike’s Terrorist
James Gibbons on Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow
Rebecca Donner on Donald Antrim’s The Afterlife
Neil Gordon on A. B. Yehoshua’s A Woman in Jerusalem
Greil Marcus on Philip Roth’s Everyman
Bharati Mukherjee on Monica Ali’s Alentejo Blue
Rachel Shteir on Marshall Berman’s On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square
Gerald Early on Joe Drape’s Black Maestro: The Epic Life of an American Legend
Marjorie Perloff on Edward Timms’s Karl Kraus, Apocalyptic Satirist: The Post-war Crisis and the Rise of the Swastika
Michael Roth on Jean Paulhan’s The Flowers of Tarbes, or, Terror in Literature
Robert S. Boynton on Eric Lott’s The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual and David S. Brown’s Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography
L. P. Harvey on Natalie Zemon Davis’s Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
Yona Zeldis McDonough on Rachel Sherman’s The First Hurt
McKenzie Wark on Steve Tomasula’s The Book of Portraiture
Lauren Sanders on Clifford Chase’s Winkie
Tom Nawrocki on Andrew Beaujon’s Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock
Sia Michel on Reggie Nadelson’s Comrade Rockstar: The Life and Mystery of Dean Reed, the All-American Boy Who Brought Rock ‘n’ Roll to the Soviet Union
Rebecca Reich on Kiril Tomoff’s Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939–1953
Adam Lehner on Cynthia Carr’s Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America
Benjamin Strong on Louise Welsh’s The Bullet Trick