Moral Combat

Dale Peck on New Studies of E. M. Forster

Painting by Words

Tyler Cowen on the Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

The Yellow Peril

Michael Lind on the Journalism of Pulitzer, Hearst, and Luce

PUB DATES by David O’Neill

Joan Richardson talks with Stanley Cavell

Melanie Rehak on Tom Fitzmorris’s New Orleans

Jenna Sauers on Prada

Sarah Courteau on Peter Carey’s Parrot and Olivier in America

Elizabeth Mitchell on Something Red by Jennifer Gilmore

Jacob Silverman on The Line by Olga Grushin

Karan Mahajan on American Taliban, by Pearl Abraham

Adam Kirsch on Yann Martel’s Beatrice and Virgil

Craig Seligman on The Escape by Adam Thirlwell

Kate Wolf on Sam Munson’s The November Criminals

Ross Simonini on Scott Bradfield’s The People Who Watched Her Pass By

Matthew Shaer on Kira Henehan’s Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles

Geoffrey O’Brien on Heinrich von Kleist’s Selected Prose

Heather Havrilesky on A Ticket to the Circus by Norris Church Mailer

J. Gabriel Boylan on KYLE GANN‘s No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage’s 4’33” and GEORGE PROCHNIK‘s In Pursuit of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise

Gal Beckerman on IAN JOHNSON‘s A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West

Chris Lehmann on Daniel Okrent’s Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

Gerald Howard on Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney by Marion Meade

Nathan Lee on Perpetual Inventory by Rosalind E. Krauss

Tom Vanderbilt on Sigfried Giedion’s Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History

Dahlia Lithwick on Paul D. Halliday’s Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire

Noah Isenberg on Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History by Simon Winder

Brendan Boyle on Raymond Geuss’s Politics and the Imagination

Peter Manseau on Stephen Batchelor’s Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

Albert Mobilio on François-Marie Banier’s Samuel Beckett

Michael Woodsworth on Sean Mills’s The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal

Timothy Farrington on ROBERT McCRUM‘s Globish: How the English Language Became the World’s Language

Sheila Heti on Mary Jane Jacob and Michelle Grabner’s The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists

Jonah Lehrer on IAIN McGILCHRIST‘s The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

Erin Aubry Kaplan on Midnight at the Barrelhouse: The Johnny Otis Story by George Lipsitz

Benjamin Anastas on IAN McEWAN‘s Solar

Vivian Gornick on Mark Cohen’s Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim

Ana Marie Cox on And the Heart Says Whatever by Emily Gould

Clay Risen on DANIEL S. PIERCE’s Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France and MARK BECHTEL‘s He Crashed Me so I Crashed Him Back

Wendy Lesser on Collected Stories by Deborah Eisenberg