COLUMNS
Coffee Table: Barry Schwabsky and Andy Grundberg on new monographs
Market Bull: Andrew Hultkrans on demographic surveillance
Print Run: Tom Vanderbilt on the “new classics”
Gordon Grice on Nabokov’s Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius, by Kurt Johnson and Steve Coates
Paul Lukas on Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America, by Alison J. Clarke
Jane Harris on Joseph Cornell: Stargazing in the Cinema, by Jodi Hauptman
Lee Smith on Why Read the Classics?, by Italo Calvino, translated by Martin McLaughlin
Lawrence Chua on E-topia: “Urban Life, Jim—But Not As We Know It,” by William J. Mitchell
Erik Davis on The Vampire Lectures, by Laurence A. Rickels
Greil Marcus on The Noir Style, by Alain Silver and James Ursini; and New York Noir: Crime Photos from the Daily News Archive, by William Hannigan
Howard Hampton on “Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!”: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919–1959, by Eric Schaefer
Arthur C. Danto on Balthus: A Biography, by Nicholas Fox Weber
Michael FitzGerald on On Modern American Art: Selected Essays, by Robert Rosenblum
Giovanni Intra on Mike Kelley, by Isabelle Graw, Anthony Vidler, and John Welchman
Jonathan Lethem on O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors, edited by Luc Sante and Melissa Holbrook Pierson
Daniel Pinchbeck on Pills-A-Go-Go: A Fiendish Investigation into Pill Marketing, Art, History, and Consumption, by Jim Hogshire
Ann Reynolds on Ansichts Sachen/Viewing Matters, by Hans Haacke
David Toop on Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts, by Douglas Kahn; and The Sound of Painting: Music in Modern Art, by Karin v. Maur