COLUMNS
Ex Libris: Colm Tóibín on an extraordinary reader
Fiction Forecast by Kera Bolonik
Interview: Haruki Murakami talks with Geoffrey O’Brien
First Novels by Darcy Cosper
Coffee Table: Barry Schwabsky and Andy Grundberg on art and photo monographs
Gimme Shelter: Tom Vanderbilt on the architecture of fear
What It Is: Nick Tosches on cool
Marcelle Clements on Perfect Recall: New Stories, by Ann Beattie
Lee Smith on Sills: Poems, by Michael O’Brien
Ann Marlowe on Trailer Girl and Other Stories, by Terese Svoboda
Mark Caldwell on The Biographer’s Tale, by A.S. Byatt
Eliot Weinberger on The Root and the Flower, by L.H. Myers
Honor Moore on The Glass Palace, by Amitav Ghosh
Barbara Einzig on The Museum of Useless Efforts, by Cristina Peri Rossi
Albert Mobilio on Eclipse, by John Banville
James Gibbons on This is Not a Novel, by David Markson
W.S. Di Piero on The Body Artist, by Don DeLillo
Greil Marcus on John Henry Days, by Colson Whitehead
James Surowiecki on The Sagas of Icelanders, preface by Jane Smiley, introduction by Robert Kellogg
Dan Kennedy on When Elephants Paint: The Quest of Two Russian Artists to Save the Elephants of Thailand, by Komar & Melamid with Mia Fineman, introduction by Dave Eggers
Carlo McCormick on Futura, by Futura, edited by Elizabeth Farrelly
Jim Lewis on Writers at the Movies: Twenty-six Contemporary Authors Celebrate Twenty-six Memorable Movies, edited by Jim Shepard
Margaret Sundell on Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics, by Marcia Brennan and Democratic Visions: Art and Theory of the Stieglitz Circle, 1924-1934, by Celeste Connor
William Monahan on The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis
David Frankel on Cultivated Impasses: Essays on the Waning of the Avant-Garde 1964-1975, by Max Kozloff
Nuar Alsadir on The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, edited by Karen V. Kukil
Minna Proctor on Marguerite Duras: A Life, by Laura Adler
Luc Sante on Just Above the Mantelpiece: Mass-Market Masterpieces, by Wayne Hemingway
David Toop on Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage, by Albert Glinsky, foreword by Robert Moog
Arthur C. Danto on John Ruskin: A Life, by John Batchelor