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Coffee Table: Barry Schwabsky and Andy Grundberg on art and photo monographs
Benjamin Anastas on Muriel Spark and realism
Interview: Minna Proctor talks with Umberto Eco
Fiction Forecast by Kera Bolonik
Skin Job: Tom Vanderbilt on Total Living: Fashion, Architecture, Design, Art, Communication, edited by Maria Luisa Frisa, Mario Lupano, and Stefano Tonchi
The Confidence Men: Paul Maliszewski on frauds, cons, and forgeries
All the Rage: Tiffany Lee Brown on post-riot grrrl screeds
Horse’s Mouth: readers’ tips compiled by Laura Mauk
Mike McGonigal on Ball and Hammer: Hugo Ball’s Tenderenda the Fantast, by Hugo Ball, translated and illustrated by Jonathan Hammer
Adam Kirsch on Family Matters, by Rohinton Mistry
Vivian Gornick on The Assassin’s Cloak: An Anthology of the World’s Greatest Diarists, edited by Alan and Irene Taylor
Jerry Stahl on Lullaby, by Chuck Palahniuk
John Pallatella on Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems, by Jamie Saenz, translated by Kent Johnson and Forrest Gander
Suzan Sherman on Things You Should Know: Stories, by A.M. Holmes
Mark Swartz on The Green Hour, by Frederick Tuten
Gary Indiana on Snake and Niagara, by Mary Woronov
Dani Shapiro on Shootout With Father, by Marianne Hauser
Steve Erickson on In the Hand of Dante, by Nick Tosches
David Bowman on Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
First Novels by Darcy Cosper
David Gates on Tests of Time: Essays, by William H. Gass
Greg Villepique on Indexers and Indexes in Fact and Fiction, edited by Hazel K. Bell, foreword by A.S. Byatt
Sam Lipsyte on An American Family: A Televised Life, by Jeffrey Ruoff
Ben Schrank on The Blank State: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven Pinker
Jenifer Berman on The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired, by Francine Prose
David Toop on The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933, by Emily Thompson
Luc Sante on Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography, by Jimmy McDonough
Alex Coles on Abstract Art in the Late Twentieth Century, edited by Frances Colpitt
Dennis Cooper on Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader, edited by Jason Weiss
Margot Mifflin on Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity, by Irene Gammel
Geoff Dyer on Ready, Steady, Go! The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London, by Shawn Levy
Peter Plagens on Art Crazy Nation: The Post-Blimey! Art World, by Matthew Collings