COLUMNS
First Novels by Paul West
Fiction Forecast by Jonathan Bing
Interview: John Ashbery talks with Lee Smith
Block Party: David Gates on the writer’s process
Coffee Table: Barry Schwabsky and Andy Grundberg on art and photo monographs
Sorry Entertainers: Damon Krukowski on outsider music
Second Reads: Elizabeth Hardwick on Italo Svevo
Francine Prose on Romanticism and Its Discontents, by Anita Brookner
Mary Gaitskill on Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, “Rabbit Remembered,” by John Updike
Wayne Koestenbaum on Goethe’s Faust, Part I, translated by Randall Jarrell, illustrations by Peter Sís
Judith Moore on Selected Poems of Anne Sexton, by Anne Sexton, edited by Diane Wood Middlebrook and Diana Hume George
Elissa Schappell on The Quick and the Dead, by Joy Williams
Rick Moody on The Name of the World, by Denis Johnson
Jeff Giles on Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami
Jonathan Lethem on When We Were Orphans, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Peter Griffin on F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels and Stories 1920-1922, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Jackson R. Bryer
Rob Spillman on On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House, by Peter Handke
Robert Polito on Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer, by Richard Holmes
Craig Seligman on The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay, by Michael Chabon
Greil Marcus on How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life: Stories, by John Fahey
Dennis Cooper on You Can’t Win, by Jack Black
Jonathan Ames on Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris
Tiffany Lee Brown on A Whore Just Like the Rest: The Music Writings of Richard Meltzer, by Richard Meltzer
F.L. Rush on Art of the Modern Age: Philosophy of Art from Kant to Heidegger, by Jean-Marie Schaeffer, translated by Steven Rendall
Jane Harris on Peter Halley: Maintain Speed, edited by Cory Reynolds
Molly Nesbit on á l’infinitif, a typotranslation by Richard Hamilton and Ecke Bonk of Marcel Duchamp’s White Box, translated by Jackie Matisse, Richard Hamilton, and Ecke Bonk
Anderew Ross on Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. Big City, by Mike Davis
Geoffrey O’Brien on This Craft of Verse: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1967-1968, by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Calin-Andrei Mihailescu
David Thomson on The Grove Book of Hollywood, edited by Christopher Silvester
Luc Sante on Boring Postcards and Boring Postcards U.S.A., collected by Martin Parr
Geoff Dyer on Writing on Drugs, by Sadie Plant
Peter Plagens on Tales from the Art Crypt: The Painters, the Museums, the Curators, the Collectors, the Auctions, the Art, by Richard Feigen