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ART & CULTURE Greil Marcus on The Noir Style, by Alain Silver and James Ursini; and New York Noir: Crime Photos from the Daily News Archive, by William Hannigan David Toop on Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts, by Douglas Kahn; and The Sound of Painting: Music in Modern Art, by Karin v. Maur Ann Reynolds on Ansichts Sachen/Viewing Matters, by Hans Haacke Daniel Pinchbeck on Pills-A-Go-Go: A Fiendish Investigation into Pill Marketing, Art, History, and Consumption, by Jim Hogshire Jonathan Lethem on O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors, edited by Luc Sante and Melissa Holbrook Pierson Giovanni Intra on Mike Kelley, by Isabelle Graw, Anthony Vidler, and John Welchman Michael FitzGerald on On Modern American Art: Selected Essays, by Robert Rosenblum Arthur C. Danto on Balthus: A Biography, by Nicholas Fox Weber Howard Hampton on "Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!": A History of Exploitation Films, 1919ó1959, by Eric Schaefer Gordon Grice on Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius, by Kurt Johnson and Steve Coates Erik Davis on The Vampire Lectures, by Laurence A. Rickels Lawrence Chua on E-topia: "Urban Life, JimóBut Not As We Know It," by William J. Mitchell Lee Smith on Why Read the Classics?, by Italo Calvino, translated by Martin McLaughlin Jane Harris on Joseph Cornell: Stargazing in the Cinema, by Jodi Hauptman Paul Lukas on Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America, by Alison J. Clarke ART & CULTURE COLUMNS Print Run: Tom Vanderbilt on the "new classics" Market Bull: Andrew Hultkrans on demographic surveillance Coffee Table: Barry Schwabsky and Andy Grundberg on new monographs International Pastimes: Ronald Jones on coffee and cigarettes FICTION Francine Prose on Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers, edited and with an introduction by Carlos L. Dews Dale Peck on The Walking Tour, by Kathryn Davis Clifford Chase on Comfort & Joy, by Jim Grimsley Amy Hempel on Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss, by Frederick and Steven Barthelme Daniel Mendelsohn on Gore Vidal: A Biography, by Fred Kaplan Nico Israel on The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, by Will Self Jim Lewis on American Fictions, by Elizabeth Hardwick Jenifer Berman on Peel My Love Like an Onion, by Ana Castillo David Rakoff on Waiting, by Ha Jin Benjamin Taylor on Out of Place: A Memoir, by Edward W. Said Alexander Chee on Who's Irish? , by Gish Jen FICTION COLUMNS First Novels by Paul West Interview: Susan Sontag talks with Dale Peck Screen Writing: Robin Troy on Maggie Estep |
