COLUMNS
On Photography by Andy Grundberg
One on One: Talking with Nadine Gordimer, by John Brenkman
Debuts: Arthur Golden on first novels
Editor’s Choice: this spring’s fabulous finds
The Story: James Marcus on recent short-story collections
Matthew DeBord on Two Guys from Verona: A Novel of Suburbia, by James Kaplan
Sharon Thompson on Spending, by Mary Gordon
Joy Katz on Hell: A Novel, by Kathryn Davis
David Plante on Love and Death in the American Novel, by Leslie A. Fiedler
Jonathan Taylor on Enduring Love, by Ian McEwan
Fanny Howe on No Lease on Life, by Lynne Tillman
Jacqueline Woodson on The Healing, by Gayl Jones
James Wood on The Life of Insects, by Victor Pelevin
Kathy Acker, 1947-1997, by Amy Scholder
John Szwed on Solibo Magnificent, by Patrick Chamoiseau
Katherine Dieckmann on Cavedweller, by Dorothy Allison
Mayer Rus on Isaac Mizrahi Presents the Adventures of Sandee the Supermodel, by Isaac Mizrahi
J. Hoberman on Director’s Cut, by John Waters
Larissa MacFarquhar on Photographs: Theater of Manners, by Tina Barney
Peter Plagens on The Flow of Art: Essays and Criticisms, by Henry McBride
Howard Hampton on The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book, by Robert Crumb
David Rimanelli on I Love Dick, by Chris Kraus
Peter Plagens on Greatest Works of Art of Western Civilization, by Thomas Hoving
Richard Howard on The Libertine Reader: Eroticism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France, edited by Michel Feher
Michael FitzGerald on A Day with Picasso: Twenty-four Photographs by Jean Cocteau, by Billy Klüver
Lisa Liebmann on The Words of Gilbert & George, edited by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Robert Violette
Hilton Als on Galliano, by Colin McDowell
Andrew Hultkrans on All American: A Style Book, by Tommy Hilfiger with David A. Keaps
Dave Hickey on Soapbox: Essays, diatribes, homilies and screeds, by Glenn O’Brien
Barbara Kruger on Paradoxia: A Predator’s Diary, by Lydia Lunch
Marjorie Perloff on The Picasso Papers, by Rosalind E. Krauss
Joyce Kozloff on Robert Kushner: Gardens of Earthly Delight, by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy
Martin Jay on The Panorama: History of a Mass Medium, by Stephan Ottermann