Inner-City Muse

James Gibbons on Richard Price

Women Under the Influence

Nana Asfour on Iranian-American women novelists

Nixonland

Rick Perlstein’s new history, excerpted

Snow Angels, the film; the Bookforum literary calendar

Radhika Jones on Daniel Menaker

John Freeman on Randall Jarrell

Nicole Rudick on Rocketship

Jessica Joffe on Melody Petersen’s Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs

Bookforum talks with Jhumpa Lahiri

Lenora Todaro on Gary Amdahl’s I Love Death: Two Novellas

Stacey Levine on Josh Barkan’s Blind Speed

Jonathan Raymond on Colin Harrison’s The Finder

Jon Baskin on Keith Gessen’s All the Sad Young Literary Men

Darcy Cosper on Andrew Sean Greer’s The Story of a Marriage

Douglas Mullins on Nathaniel Mackey’s Bass Cathedral

Laird Hunt on Nam Le’s The Boat

Tim Griffin on Cole Swensen’s Ours

Tess Lewis on Alain Claude Sulzer’s A Perfect Waiter

Stephanie Zacharek on Nina Revoyr’s The Age of Dreaming

Amy Rosenberg on Etgar Keret’s The Girl on the Fridge

Bryan Walsh on Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem

Lauren Sanders on Jim Krusoe’s Girl Factory

Yona Zeldis McDonough on Louise Erdrich’s The Plague of Doves

Michael Gorra on Cynthia Ozick’s Dictation: A Quartet

Michael Tomasky on Martin Amis’s The Second Plane: September 11, Terror and Boredom

Lorraine Adams on James Meek’s We Are Now Beginning Our Descent

Michael Roth on Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips’s Intimacies

Patrick McGrath on Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project

Craig Seligman on Brian Hall’s Fall of Frost

Wendy Lesser on Mark Richardson’s The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

Erik Davis on Rudy Wurlitzer’s The Drop Edge of Yonder

Alan Gilbert on Peter Schjeldahl’s Let’s See: Writings on Art from the New Yorker

Key Words

COLM TÓIBÍN on R. F. Foster’s Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change from 1970

Rosie Blau on Liao Yiwu’s The Corpse Walker: Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up and Floris-Jan van Luyn’s A Floating City of Peasants: The Great Migration in Contemporary China

Carlin Romano on François Jullien’s Vital Nourishment: Departing from Happiness

Nico Israel on Erin Hogan’s Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip Through the Land Art of the American West

J. Hoberman on Mark Evanier’s Kirby: King of Comics

Chris Ware on David Kunzle’s Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer and Rodolphe Töpffer: The Complete Comic Strips

Scott McLemee on Richard Sennett’s The Craftsman

Matthew Price on Samuele F. S. Pardini’s The Devil Gets His Due: The Uncollected Essays of Leslie Fiedler

Rattawut Lapcharoensap on David Goldblatt’s The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Soccer

Brian Thomas Gallagher on Alex Abella’s Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire

Elizabeth L. Bradley on Catherine O’Donnell Kaplan’s Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship

Brian Sholis on Alberto Manguel’s The Library at Night and The City of Words

Lily Burana on Alexandra Fuller’s The Legend of Colton H. Bryant

Susie Linfield on Michael Hodges’s AK-47: The Story of a Gun

Noah Isenberg on Tilman Allert’s The Hitler Salute: On the Meaning of a Gesture

Rebecca Reich on Christopher Robbins’s Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared

Emily Barton on Morrison H. Heckscher’s Creating Central Park

Karen Karbo on Sloane Crosley’s I Was Told There’d Be Cake

Joe Brainard’s The Nancy Book

Dennis Balk’s Colin De Land, American Fine Arts