COLUMNS
Lynne Tillman on Underworld, by Don DeLillo
Carol Anshaw on An Advent Calendar, by Shena Mackay
Hilton Als on Burning the Days: Recollection, by James Salter
Dale Peck on The Witch of Exmoor, by Margaret Drabble; and Already Dead, by Denis Johnson
Beth Nugent on The Skull of Charlotte Corday, by Leslie Dick
Martha Baer on The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
Bruce Hainley on My Brother, by Jamaica Kincaid
Caryl Phillips on The Far Euphrates, by Aryeh Lev Stollman
Lisa Cohen on The Word “Desire,” by Rikki Ducornet
Joy Katz on New York Mosaic: Three Novels by Isabel Bolton
Kate Bernheimer on the new tale: The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye, by A.S. Byatt; Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday, edited by Italo Calvino; Vincent’s Tale: A Bedtime Story for Boyfriends, by Nolan A. Dennett; A Blessing on the Moon, by Joseph Skibell; The Embroidered Shoes, by Can Xue
Paul West on The World is the Home of Love and Death, by Harold Brodkey
Wayne Koestenbaum on Hand to Mouth, by Paul Auster
Serge Guilbaut on Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist, by Caroline A. Jones
Daniel Birnbaum on Concrete Jungle, edited by Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman
Marvin Heiferman on The End of Innocence: Photographs from the Decades that Defined Pop: The 1950s to 1970s, edited by Liz Jobey; Real Fantasies: Edward Steichen’s Advertising Photography, by Patricia Johnston; Seydou’s Keïta, edited by André Magnin; On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam, by Joel Sternfeld
Molly Nesbit on Imagining Desire, by Mary Kelly
Erica Rand on An Intimate Distance: Women, Artists, and the Body, by Rosemary Betterton; and Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture, by Mira Schor
M.G. Lord on Laughing in the Dark: A Decade of Subversive Comedy, by Laurie Stone
Svetlana Boym on Painting by Numbers: Komar and Melamid’s Scientific Guide to Art, by Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, edited by JoAnn Wypijewski
Greil Marcus on Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy, by Dave Hickey
Arthur C. Danto on Invisible Colors: A Visual History of Titles, by John C. Welchman
Carol Armstrong on On Abstract Art, by Briony Fer
Donald Kuspit on Confessions of an Art Addict, by Peggy Guggenheim
Richard Shone on With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer, by Susannah Clapp
Robert Shiff on About Modern Art: Critical Essays 1948–1997, by David Sylvester
David Frankel on I Want to Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now, by Damien Hirst
Lisa Liebmann on Paper Museum: Writing About Painting, Mostly, by Andrew Graham-Dixon; and Blimey! From Bohemia to Britpop: The London Artworld from Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst, by Matthew Collings