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The Story of M: Saul Anton on La vie sexuelle de Catherine M.
City Writes: Maggie Paley on writing and narrative in the city
First Novels by Darcy Cosper
Interview: Evan S. Connell talks with Greg Bottoms
Fiction Forecast by Kera Bolonik
Coffee Table: Barry Schwabsky and Andy Grundberg on art and photo monographs
Invisible Literature: Mark Dery on the scattered documents of the World Trade Center
Pictures in the Wake: Carlo McCormick on Afghanistan Diary: 1992-2000, by Edward Grazda, Afghanistan, by Chris Steele-Perkins, Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran, by Peter Chelkowski and Hamid Dabashi, Vietnam Inc., by Philip Jones Griffiths, Flag: An American Story, by Lauri Lyons, and The B-Thing, by Gelatin
Horse’s Mouth: readers’ tips compiled by Laura Mauk
Suzan Sherman on Samuel Johnson is Indignant, by Lydia Davis
Lawrence Block on The Woman Chaser and The Machine in Ward Eleven, by Charles Willeford
Jonathan Ames on The Complete Works of Isaac Babel, by Isaac Babel
Robert Polito on Torn Awake, by Forrest Gander
Ben Marcus on Berg, by Ann Quin
Catherine Texier on The Appointment, by Herta Müller
Francisco Goldman on The Feast of the Goat, by Mario Vargas Llosa
Dani Shapiro on Why Did I Ever, by Mary Robison
Lynne Tillman on Borrowed Finery, by Paula Fox
David Bowman on Translated Accounts, by James Kelman
Adam Kirsch on To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays, by Czeslaw Milosz
Geoffrey O’Brien on Fritz Lang: His Life and Work––Photos and Documents, edited by Rolf Aurich, Wolfgang Jacobsen, and Cornelius Schnauber, in collaboration with Nicole Brunnhuber and Gabriele Jatho
Rachel Kushner on Extreme Canvas: Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana, edited by Ernie Wolfe III
David Thomson on History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, and Kinetophonograph, by W.K.L. Dickson and Antonia Dickson
Emily Barton on Cityscapes: A History of New York in Images, by Howard B. Rock and Deborah Dash Moore
Charles Harrison on The Invisible Masterpiece, by Hans Belting
McKenzie Wark on The Game of War: The Life and Death of Guy Debord, by Andrew Hussey, and The Tribe, by Jean-Michel Mension
Howard Hampton on Captain Beefheart: The Biography, by Mike Barnes
Erik Davis on Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age, 1971-1984, by Van Burnham
Arthur C. Danto on Proust in the Power of Photography, by Brassaï
Nuar Alsadir on Isadora: A Sensational Life, by Peter Kurth
Jerry Stahl on Hot and Cold: The Works of Richard Hell, by Richard Hell
Luc Sante on When We Liked Ike: Looking for Postwar America, by Barbara Norfleet