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Coffee Table: Barry Schwabsky and Andy Grundberg on new art and photo monographs
Fiction Forecast by Jonathan Bing
First Novels by Paul West
Interview: Michael Ondaatje talks with Jonathan Lethem
Steve Erickson on film adaptations of novels
Market Bull: Mark Dery on mites and men
Nuar Alsadir on Collected Poems in English, by Joseph Brodsky
Greil Marcus on The Human Stain, by Philip Roth
Vivian Gornick on Ravelstein, by Saul Bellow
Rick Moody on Men in the Off Hours, by Anne Carson
Emily Barton on Buddha’s Little Finger, by Victor Pelevin
Ben Neihart on Period, by Dennis Coooper
Laura Miller on Pastoralia, by George Saunders
Mark Winegardner on Jim the Boy, by Tony Earley
Christopher Sorrentino on Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers
David Gates on Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays 1952-1995, by Allen Ginsberg
Chris Offutt on An Invisible Sign of My Own, by Aimee Bender
Amanda Davis on Ten Women Who Shook the World, by Sylvia Brownrigg
Daniel Birnbaum on The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World, by Arthur C. Danto
Carlo McCormick on Laurie Anderson, by RoseLee Goldberg
Lynne Tillman on The History of Shit, by Dominique Laporte
Greg Tate on Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton, by Graham Lock
Giovanni Intra on Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, by Daniel Paul Schreber
David Toop on Arcana: Musicians on Music, edited by John Zorn
Luc Sante on Wisconsin Death Trip, by Michael Lesy, photographs by Charles Van Shaick
Howard Hampton on Let it Blurt: The Life & Times of Lester Bangs, America’s Greatest Rock Critic, by Jim DeRogatis
Erik Davis on The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet, edited by Ken Goldberg
David Thomson on an Unspeakable Betrayal: Selected Writings of Luis Buñel
Branden W. Joseph on “A Voyage on the North Sea”: Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition by Rosalind Krauss
Peter Wollen on The Analysis of Film, by Raymond Bellour, edited by Constance Penley
Ronald Jones on Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America, essays by James Allen, Hilton Als, Congressman John Lewis, and Leon F. Litwack
Robert Polito on Shakespeare’s Language, by Frank Kermode
Jennifer Berman on Science is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlevé, edited by Andy Masaki Bellows and Marina McDougall
Camden Joy on What’s Not to Love? The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer, by Jonathan Ames