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Coffee Table: Barry Schwabsky and Andy Grundberg on art and photo monographs
How French Is It?: Gerald Howard on Harry Mathews
Interview: Peter Bush talks with Juan Goytisolo
Fiction Forecast by Kera Bolonik
First Novels by Darcy Cosper
Recite and Sound: Lee Smith on Arabic poetry and the Koran
Horse’s Mouth: readers’ tips compiled by Laura Mauk
Shamanic Verses: Erik Davis on literature and drugs
Exploded View: Tom Vanderbilt on glass architecture
Mortal Syntax: Jim Lewis on The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, edited by Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum
Nobody’s Perfect: Jonathan Ames on transsexuality
Saul Anton on The Trolley, by Claude Simon, translated by Richard Howard
Greil Marcus on Erasure, by Percival Everett
James Gibbons on Chinese Whispers, by John Ashbery
Daphne Beal on This Is Not It, by Lynne Tillman
Robert Glück on Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker, edited by Amy Scholder and Dennis Cooper, and Rip-off Red, Girl Detective, and The Burning Bombing of America, by Kathy Acker
Rick Moody on Agapē Agape, by William Gaddis
Andrew Solomon on Earth and Ashes, by Atiq Rahimi translated by Erdağ M. Göknar
Geoffrey O’Brien on Breath, by Antonia Pozzi, translated by Lawrence Venuti
Kathryn Harrison on Tourmaline, by Joanna Scott
Max Winter on Cheops, by Paul West
Elissa Schappell on The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt
Richard Hell on The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film, by Michael Ondaatje
Luc Sante on Clown Paintings, edited by Diane Keaton
Albert Mobilio on A Book of Books, photographs by Abelardo Morell, preface by Nicholson Baker
Cecily Marcus on Get Your War On, by David Rees, introduction by Colson Whitehead
Carter Scholz on Kafka Goes to the Movies, by Hanns Zischler, translated by Susan H. Gillespie
Damon Krukowski on Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil, by Caetano Veloso, translated by Isabel de Sena
Christopher Sorrentino on Lost Joy, by Camden Joy
Dennis Cooper on We’re Desperate: The Punk Rock Photography of Jim Jocoy, texts by Thurston Moore, Exene Cervenka, and Mark Jacobs
Sanford Kwinter on Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes), by Hal Foster
Peter Plagens on Bruce Nauman, edited by Robert C. Morgan, and Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages, by Ed Ruscha, edited by Alexandra Schwartz
David Toop on Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer, by Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco
Eric Banks on Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca, edited by Alexander Star