COLUMNS
Settling the Score: Philip Weiss on I Married a Communist, by Philip Roth
Booksurfing: Bill Tonelli on Amazon.com
Why I Write: Norman Mailer
Nancy Princenthal on Artists’ Books
John Richardson on Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster, by Mike Davis
Joy Williams on The Trial, by Franz Kafka
William Vollmann on Early Sorrows, by Danilo Kiš
Bess Rattray on The Farming of Bones, by Edwidge Danticat
Sarah Towers on Birds of America, by Lorrie Moore
Thom Jones on four works by E.M. Cioran
Darcey Steinke on Collected Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges
Allen Lincoln on Filth, by Irvine Welsh
Judy Budnitz on Luminous Mysteries, by John Holman
Will Blythe on My Year in the No-Man’s-Bay, by Peter Handke
Michael J. Agovino on Model Behavior, by Jay McInerney
Barbara Rose on Towards a New Museum, by Victoria Newhouse
Peter Plagens on The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí, by Ian Gibson
Art & Language on The Artist in the Modern World, by Oskar Bätschmann
Andrew Hultkrans on Hiding, by Mark C. Taylor
Geoffrey Batchen on Caught: The Art of Photography in the German Democratic Republic, by Karl Gernot Kuehn
Abigail Solomon-Godeau on The Visual Culture Reader, edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff
John Tytell on Threads of Time: Recollections, by Peter Brook
Maurice Berger on Performance: Live Art Since 1960, by RoseLee Goldberg
Barry Schwabsky on Kippenberger, edited by Angelika Taschen and Burkhard Riemschneider, with text by Roberto Ohrt
Tom Breidenbach on Watercolor, by Ross Bleckner
Jonathan Crary on On Television, by Pierre Bourdieu
Alexander Nehamas on Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil, by Rüdiger Safranski
Jerry Stahl on With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E. Grant, by Richard E. Grant
Eric C. Banks on Harry Partch, by Bob Gilmore
Kay Larson on Odd Man In: Norton Simon and the Pursuit of Culture, by Suzanne Muchnic
Mayer Rus on New York Living Rooms, by Dominique Nabokov; and Your World . . . and Welcome to It: A Rogue’s Gallery of Interior Design by Patrick Mauriés, with illustrations by Christian Lacroix
Linda Nochlin on Symptoms of Culture, by Marjorie Garber