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Contributor’s Choice: suggested summer reading
One on One: Carol Anshaw talks with Barbara Gowdy
Debuts: Paul West on first novels
The Story: James Marcus on recent short-story collections
Architecture Books by Joel Sanders
Sally Eckhoff on River Angel, by A. Manette Ansay
Clifford Chase on The Scapegoat, by Jocelyn Brooke
Matthew DeBord on Now It’s Time to Say Goodbye, by Dale Peck
Lisa Cohen on The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Beth Nugent on Gold by the Inch, by Lawrence Chua
Lynn Crawford on Defiance, by Carole Maso
Laurie Stone on The Way I Found Her, by Rose Tremain
Patrick Giles on Pleasures and Regrets, by Marcel Proust
Bruce Hainley on Gertrude Stein: Writings, 1903-1932, and Gertrude Stein: Writings, 1932-1946
Dennis Cooper on A Crack-Up at the Race Riots, by Harmony Korine
Marina Warner on Aesop: The Complete Fables, translated by Olivia and Robert Temple
Robert Rosenblum on Norman Rockwell, by Karal Ann Marling
Norman Bryson on The Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism Since the French Revolution, by Dario Gamboni
Lisa Liebmann on Moving Targets: A User’s Guide to British Art Now, by Louisa Buck
Robert Rosenblum on David Hockney’s Dog Days
Barry Schwabsky on The portraits speak: Chuck Close in conversation with 27 of his subjects
Bruce Hainley on Alex Katz: A Retrospective, by Irving Sandler
Glenn O’Brien on Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art, by Phoebe Hoban
David Frankel on Live Forever, by Elizabeth Peyton
Arthur C. Danto on The Analysis of Beauty, by William Hogarth and Discourses on Art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Nayland Blake on A Small Boy and Others, by Michael Moon
Brooks Adams on MacDermott & MacGough: Paintings, Photographs & Time Experiments, 1950, and McDermott & McGough: A History of Photography
Kim France on Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women, by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Peter Watson on Portrait of Dr. Gachet, by Cynthia Saltzman
J. Hoberman on Socialist Realist Painting, by Matthew Cullerne Brown