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First Novels by Darcy Cosper
Interview: Alan Moore talks with Steve Erickson
Fiction Forecast by Kera Bolonik
Great Responsibility: Jonathan Lethem on Marvel Comics and contemporary novelists
Hopeless Causes: Gerald Howard on Wallace Markfield
Contributors’ Picks, compiled by the editor
Coffee Table: Barry Schwabsky and Andy Grundberg on art and photo monographs
Aimee Bender on Schooling, by Heather McGowan
Greil Marcus on The Dying Animal, by Philip Roth
Bradford Morrow on True History of the Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey
Sarah Vowell on Fearless Jones, by Walter Mosley and Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett 1921-1960, edited by Richard Layman with Julie M. Rivett, introduction by Josephine Hammett Marshall
John Powers on Hotel Honolulu, by Paul Theroux
Ariel Swartley on Sputnik Sweetheart, by Haruki Murakami
Anthony Miller on American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
Howard Hampton on Glue, by Irvine Welsh and Cardiff Dead, by John Williams
Emily White on Lightning Field, by Dana Spiotta
Michael Ventura on The Carpenter’s Pencil, by Manuel Rivas
Bruce Bauman on Going, Going, Gone, by Jack Womack
Mark Dery on Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now, by Martin Kemp and Marina Wallace
Dennis Cooper on Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones, by Dee Dee Ramone with Veronica Kaufman, introduction by Legs McNeil
Mary Ann Caws on A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell, edited by Jonathan Safran Foer
Robert Polito on Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña, by David Hajdu
Peter Plagens on Visionaries and Outcasts: The NEA, Congress, and the Place of the Visual Artist in America, by Michael Brenson and Exhibitionism: Art in an Era of Intolerance, by Lynne Munson
Arthur C. Danto on Recording Conceptual Art: Early Interviews with Barry, Huebler, Kaltenbach, LeWitt, Morris, Oppenheim, Siegelaub, Smithson, Weiner, by Patricia Norvell, edited by Alexander Alberro and Patricia Norvell
Rick Moody on A Stay Against Confusion Essays on Faith and Fiction, by Ron Hansen
David Grubbs on Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman, edited by B.H. Friedman, afterword by Frank O’Hara
Michael Almereyda on For the Voice, by Vladimir Mayakovsky and El Lissitzky
Jonathan Ames on Now Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern 1950-1995
Minna Proctor on Hannah Arendt: Life Is a Narrative, by Julia Kristeva
Luc Sante on The Future of Nostalgia, by Svetlana Boym
David Gates on Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books, by H.J. Jackson
Dave Hickey on The Ephemeral Museum: Old Master Paintings and the Rise of the Art Exhibition, by Francis Haskell