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First Novels Darcy Cosper
Fiction Forecast by Kera Bolonik
Interview: Doris Lessing talks with Lisa Appignanesi
Self-Sentenced: Jonathan Ames on self-mythologizing authors
Coffee Table: Barry Schwabsky and Andy Grundberg on art and photo monographs
Culture Lock: McKenzie Wark on intellectual property and its trespasses
Horse’s Mouth: readers’ tips compiled by Laura Mauk
Minna Proctor on The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese, by Cesare Pavese
Darcy Steinke on I’ll Let You Go, by Bruce Wagner
David L. Ulin on The Melancholy of Anatomy, by Shelley Jackson
David Bowman on Notable American Women, by Ben Marcus
Bharati Mukherjee on The Sweetest Dream, by Doris Lessing
Andrew Solomon on A Small Boy and Others: A Memoir, by Henry James
Jenifer Berman on My Happy Life, by Lydia Millet
Rob Spillman on Bedlam Burning, by Geoff Nicholson
Geoffrey O’Brien on Atet A.D., by Nathaniel Mackey
Michael Palmer on New Collected Poems, by George Oppen
Eileen Myles on Rapture, by Susan Minot
Damon Krukowski on Brutality Garden: Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture, by Christopher Dunn
Suzan Sherman on Kosmos: A Portrait of the Russian Space Age, by Adam Bartos, essay by Svetlana Boym
William Georgiades on How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, by Toby Young
Tiffany Lee Brown on Zines, edited by Liz Farrelly
Emily Barton on Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies, by James Sanders
Mike McGonigal on Adventures in ‘Pataphysics (Collected Works Vol. I), by Alfred Jarry
Jack Bankowsky on Andy Warhol, by Wayne Koestenbaum
David Grubbs on On Jack Smith’s “Flaming Creatures” (and Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc), by J. Hoberman
Claudia Brodsky Lacour on Stupidity, by Avital Ronell
David Gates on The National Enquirer: Thirty Years of Unforgettable Images, edited by Charles Melcher and Valerie Virga
Arthur C. Danto on Interviews with American Artists, by David Sylvester
Erik Davis on The Secret Life of Puppets, by Victoria Nelson
Greil Marcus on The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg, by William Beard