COLUMNS
Fiction Forecast by Jonathan Bing
First Novels by Paul West
Interview: Joyce Carol Oates talks with Mary Gaitskill
Influence Anxiety: Eileen Myles on Henry Miller
Market Bull: Thomas Frank on nobrow culture
Coffee Table: Barry Schwabsky and Andy Grundberg on new monographs
Greil Marcus on Plainsong, by Kent Haruf
Paul Berman on Gertrude and Claudius, by John Updike
Luc Sante on House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski
Mary Gaitskill on Blonde, by Joyce Carol Oates
Joy Williams on Blue Angel, by Francine Prose
Bill Broun on The Verificationist, by Donald Antrim
Craig Seligman on In the Gloaming: Stories, by Alice Elliott Dark
Peter Trachtenberg on Mr. Spaceman, by Robert Olen Butler
Irini Spanidou on On Parole, by Akira Yoshimura
Karl Wenclas on Sarah by J.T. LeRoy
Laura Miller on In America, by Susan Sontag
Francisco Goldman on Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee
Kim Gordon on Nothing is Terrible, by Matthew Sharpe
Stephen Wright on Stanley Kubrick, Director: A Visual Analysis, by Alexander Walker, Sybil Taylor, and Ulrich Ruchti
Arthur C. Danto on The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper, by John Richardson
Jerry Stahl on Conversations with Wilder, by Cameron Crowe
Howard Hampton on City on Fire: Hong Kong Cinema, by Lisa Odham Strokes and Michael Hoover
Christoph Cox on Exotica: Fabricated Soundscapes in a Real World, by David Toop
David Bowman on Art World, by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Peter Plagens on Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology, edited by Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson; Two-Way Mirror Power: Selected Writings by Dan Graham on His Art, by Dan Graham, edited by Alexander Alberro; Object to Be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark, by Pamela M. Lee
John Tytell on Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs, edited by James Grauerholz
Ronald Jones on Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David after the Terror, by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Geoffrey O’Brien on Kurt Weill: A Life in Pictures and Documents, by David Farneth, with Elmar Juchem and Dave Stein
Daniel Kunitz on Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art, by Justin Spring
J. Hoberman on The eXile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia, by Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi
Erik Davis on Your Private Sky: R. Buckminster Fuller, The Art of Design Science, edited by Joachim Krausse and Claude Lichtenstein
Carlo McCormick on Leeteg of Tahiti: Paintings from the Villa Velour, by John Turner and Greg Escalante
A.S. Hamrah on The Sound Bite Society: Television and the American Mind, by Jeffrey Scheuer