COLUMNS
Perfume, the oral history; the George Plimpton statue; collected works on the Web; the Bookforum literary calendar
Radhika Jones on Edward Mendelson
Photography
Marcela Valdes on Indies Under Fire: The Battle for the American Bookstore
Thad Ziolkowski on surf photography
Nicole Rudick on Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon
Masha Tupitsyn on Natsuo Kirino’s Grotesque
Max Winter on Anna Moschovakis’s I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone
Benjamin Lytal on Joel Rose’s The Blackest Bird: A Novel of Murder in Nineteenth-Century New York
Ed Park on Adam Rapp’s The Year of Endless Sorrows
Rebecca Walker on Jennifer Baumgardner’s Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics
Joy Connolly on Virgil’s The Aeneid, translated by Robert Fagles
Emilie Bickerton on The Novel, Volume 1: History, Geography, and Culture and The Novel, Volume 2: Forms and Themes, edited by Franco Moretti
Arthur C. Danto on Roger Woolhouse’s Locke: A Biography
Katie Hafner on Fred R. Shapiro’s The Yale Book of Quotations
Eric Banks on Warren Belasco’s Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food and Tristram Stuart’s The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times
William S. McFeely on Aaron Sachs’s The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American
Stephanie Hanson on Eric Hershberg and Fred Rosen’s Latin America After Neoliberalism: Turning the Tide in the 21st Century? and Nancy Grey Postero’s Now We Are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Postmulticultural Bolivia
Claire Harman on Linda Lear’s Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
Alice Echols on Gail Levin’s Becoming Judy Chicago: A Biography of the Artist
Douglas Mullins on Iain Anderson’s This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture
Matt Madden on Osamu Tezuka’s Ode to Kirihito
Woodrow Phoenix on Roland Kelts’s Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S.
Aaron Matz on Claire Tomalin’s Thomas Hardy
Robert A. M. Stern, David Fishman, and Jacob Tilove’s New York 2000: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Bicentennial and the Millennium
Rainer Kahsnitz’s Carved Splendor: Late Gothic Altarpieces in Southern Germany, Austria, and South Tirol
E. C. Segar’s Popeye, Volume l: “I Yam What I Yam”