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ART & CULTURE Luc Sante on When We Liked Ike: Looking for Postwar America, by Barbara Norfleet Jerry Stahl on Hot and Cold: The Works of Richard Hell, by Richard Hell Nuar Alsadir on Isadora: A Sensational Life, by Peter Kurth Arthur C. Danto on Proust in the Power of Photography, by Brassaï Erik Davis on Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age, 1971ñ1984, by Van Burnham Howard Hampton on Captain Beefheart: The Biography, by Mike Barnes McKenzie Wark on The Game of War: The Life and Death of Guy Debord, by Andrew Hussey, and The Tribe, by Jean-Michel Mension Charles Harrison on The Invisible Masterpiece, by Hans Belting Emily Barton on Cityscapes: A History of New York in Images, by Howard B. Rock and Deborah Dash Moore David Thomson on History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, and Kinetophonograph, by W.K.L. Dickson and Antonia Dickson Rachel Kushner on Extreme Canvas: Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana, edited by Ernie Wolfe III columns Pictures in the Wake: Carlo McCormick on Afghanistan Diary: 1992ñ2000, 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 ART & CULTURE COLUMNS Invisible Literature: Mark Dery on the scattered documents of the World Trade Center Coffee Table: Barry Schwabsky and Andy Grundberg on art and photo monographs The Story of M: Saul Anton on La vie sexuelle de Catherine M. Mat Finish: Sam Lipsyte on art and wrestling Horse's Mouth: readers' tips compiled by Laura Mauk FICTION 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 Suzan Sherman on Samuel Johnson Is Indignant, by Lydia Davis 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 columns FICTION COLUMNS City Writes: Maggie Paley on writing and narrative in the city First Novels by Darcy Cosper |