COLUMNS
Judy Budnitz on Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine, by Thom Jones
Steve Erickson on Fetish, edited by John Yau
Jill Clement on The Love of a Good Woman, by Alice Munro
Dale Peck on Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue, by James Purdy
Jim Lewis on Three Gothic Novels: Wieland, Arthur Mervyn, Edgar Huntly by Charles Brockden Brown
Jenifer Berman on Fear, by Irini Spanidou
David L. Ulin on Cartesian Sonata and other novellas, by William H. Gass
Bruce Hainley on Glamorama, by Bret Easton Ellis
Francine Prose on At Home with the Marquis de Sade, by Francine du Plessix Gray
Jenny McPhee on Bag of Bones, by Stephen King
Darius H. James on Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader, edited by James Grauerholz and Ira Silverberg
Michael Carroll on T.C. Boyle Stories, by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Richard Kadrey on Children of Ezekiel: Aliens, UFOs, the Crisis of Race, and the Advent of End Time, by Michael Lieb; and Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace, by Jodi Dean
Tom Vanderbilt on Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage, by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
S.H. Fernando Jr. on Hip Hop America, by Nelson George
J. Hoberman on French New Wave, by Jean Douchet in collaboration with Cédric Anger, translated by Robert Bonnono
Tricia Rose on Living Color: Race and Television in the United States, edited by Sasha Torres
Theodore Spencer on Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis, by John Hannigan
Howard Hampton on Gonzo: The Art, by Ralph Steadman; and Malicious Resplendence: The Paintings of Robt. Williams
Sander L. Gilman on My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin, by Peter Gay
Lucinda Rosenfeld on Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema, by Yvonne Tasker; and Tough Girls: Women Warriors and Wonder Women in Popular Culture, by Sherrie A. Inness
Mikki Halpin on The Technology of Orgasm: “Hysteria,” the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction, by Rachel P. Maines
Peter Plagens on Most Art Sucks: Five Years of Coagula
Bruce Hainley on My Pilgrim’s Progress: Media Studies 1950-1997, by George W.S. Trow
Paolo Berdini on Constructions, by John Rajchman
Svetlana Alpers on Depiction, by Michael Podro
David Toop on Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, by Simon Reynolds
Dennis Cooper on Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Fantasies in Contemporary Art and Culture, by Linda S. Kauffman
Jonathan Lethem on More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts, by James Naremore
Mark Dery on Serendipities: Language and Lunacy, by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver
Richard Shone on The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, 1869–1908, by Hilary Spurling