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Summer Forecast by Jonathan Bing Illustrations by Elisha Cooper
Interview: Salman Rushdie talks with Will Blythe
Prison Reading: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc on prose and cons
Coffee Table: Barry Schwabsky and Andy Grundberg on new monographs
Thomas Beller on Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories, by David Foster Wallace
Michael Carroll on A Dangerous Friend, by Ward Just
Ben Dickinson on Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse, by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Jeff Hershey on Vita Nova, by Louise Glück
Rob Trucks on 30, by Stephen Dixon
Michael Almereyda on The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon’s Exile on Saint Helena, by Jean-Paul Kauffmann, translated by Patricia Clancy
Joy Williams on Some Horses, by Thomas McGuane
Daniel Pinchbeck on True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir, by Ernest Hemingway
Cynthia Cotts on Turn of the Century, by Kurt Andersen
Rust Hills on Paris Trance, by Geoff Dyer
Jayne Anne Phillips on Hope Against Hope: A Memoir, by Nadezhda Mandelstam, translated by Max Hayward
Patrick McGrath on Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin, by Richard Davenport-Hines
R.U. Sirius on Boggs: A Comedy of Values, by Lawrence Weschler
Damon Krukowski on The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de Siècle France, edited by Asti Hustvedt
Dennis Cooper on Nick Drake: The Biography, by Patrick Humphries
David Bowman on Paranoia within Reason: A Casebook on Conspiracy as Explanation, edited by George E. Marcus; and Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture, by Mark Fenster
Matthew DeBord on The Virtual Dimension: Architecture, Representation, and Crash Culture, edited by John Beckmann
Brian Wallis on Displays of Power: Memory and Amnesia in the American Museum, by Steven C. Dubin; and The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations and the Museum of Modern Art, by Mary Anne Staniszewski
Arthur C. Danto on Walker Evans, by James R. Mellow
Greg Tate on Blackface, by David Levinthal
Jonathan Lethem on Martin Scorsese: Interviews, edited by Peter Brunette
Giovanni Intra on Oui: The Paranoid-Critical Revolution, Writings 1927-1933, by Salvador Dalí
M.G. Lord on From Girls to Grrrlz: A History of Women’s Comics from Teens to Zines, by Trina Robbins
Christoph Cox on DJ Culture, by Ulf Poschardt, translated by Shaun Whiteside
J. Hoberman on Asian Pop Cinema: Bombay to Tokyo, by Lee Server
Linda Nochlin on Women in Dada: Essays on Sex, Gender, and Identity,edited by Naomi Sawelson-Gorse