Polymorphous Adversity

WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN ON PÉTER NÁDAS’S PARALLEL STORIES

The Modern Distemper

ROBERT WESTBROOK EXAMINES THE CAREER OF TONY JUDT, ONE OF THE LAST PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS

Satellites of Love

DENNIS LIM ON HARUKI MURAKAMI’S NOVEL OF COSMIC CHAOS

MICHAEL GREENBERG on Germany’s shifting postwar legacy

MELANIE REHAK on Mad Men cuisine

NATASHA VARGAS-COOPER on Marilyn, Mailer, and money

MARJORIE PERLOFF: The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 1: 1898–1922, Revised Edition and The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 2: 1923–1925

EMILY COOKE: Trinie Dalton’s Baby Geisha

BENJAMIN STRONG: Adam Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son

ANGE MLINKO: David Trinidad’s Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems

THOMAS MEANEY: Albert Cossery’s Proud Beggars and The Colors of Infamy; and Hisham Matar’s Anatomy of a Disappearance

FIONA MAAZEL: Ben Marcus’s The Flame Alphabet

LAURA KIPNIS: Michel Houellebecq’s The Map and the Territory

ED PARK: Lars Arffssen’s The Girl with the Sturgeon Tattoo: A Parody and Lawrence Douglas’s The Vices

ROZALIA JOVANOVIC: Gary Lutz’s Divorcer

JAMES GREER: Kate Zambreno’s Green Girl

JULIA BRYAN-WILSON: Francesca Woodman’s Notebook

MICHAEL LESY: Ernest Cole: Photographer

ALBERT MOBILIO: James Castle: Show and Store

HARI KUNZRU on Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life

ANDREW ROSS on the plight of the global precariat

SCOTT MCLEMEE on Victor Serge’s dissenting legacy

JEFF SHARLET on how the Occupy Wall Street movement discovered its bliss

SARAH LEONARD unmasks the financial elite’s intellectual pretensions

HEATHER HAVRILESKY: Caitlin Flanagan’s Girl Land

DOUGLAS P. FRY: Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

MARK POLIZZOTTI: Alastair Brotchie’s Alfred Jarry: A Pataphysical Life

ARUNA D’SOUZA: Martha Wilson Sourcebook: 40 Years of Reconsidering Performance, Feminism, Alternative Spaces

JAMES RESTON JR.: Jay Rubenstein’s Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse

BUZZY JACKSON: Eric Klinenberg’s Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone

SAM QUINONES: Ioan Grillo’s El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency

JOHANNA FATEMAN: Nile Rodgers’s Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny

JESSICA LOUDIS: Michael Lewis’s Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

MEEHAN CRIST: Alison Winter’s Memory: Fragments of a Modern History