Sept/Oct/Nov 2007 • Table of Contents
ROAMIN' LEGIONS
DAVID L. ULIN on THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF JACK KEROUAC’S ON THE ROAD
CONVERSATION STARTER
JESSE BROWNER ON MME DE RAMBOUILLET AND THE BIRTH OF THE SALON
AFTER THE LAST INTELLECTUAL
SCOTT MCLEMEE ON THE LEGACY OF RUSSELL JACOBY’S DIRGE FOR THE FREELANCE THINKER
FEATURED REVIEWS
JAMES GIBBONS on on DENIS JOHNSON’s Tree of Smoke
ERIC KLINENBERG on NAOMI KLEIN’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
MORRIS DICKSTEIN on EDMUND WHITE’s Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel
MAUREEN HOWARD on HA JIN’s A Free Life
JOHN LICHFIELD on GEERT MAK’s In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century
ARTHUR C. DANTO on RICHARD RORTY’s Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers
FICTION
LORRAINE ADAMS on Zakes Mda’s Cion
MARCELA VALDES on Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
JOHN PALATTELLA on Susan Howe's My Emily Dickinson and Souls of the Labadie Tract
JAMES PONIEWOZIK on Tom Perrotta’s The Abstinence Teacher
LISA SHEA on Marina Lewycka’s Strawberry Fields
REBECCA DONNER on Andrea Barrett’s The Air We Breathe
SARAH FAY on Jill Bialosky's The Life Room
FRANCES RICHARD on Francis Picabia's I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation
THOMAS MEANEY on Percival Everett’s The Water Cure
CARLA BLUMENKRANZ on Jason Brown’s Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work
CRAIG MORGAN TEICHER on C. D. Wright’s One Big Self: An Investigation
BRIAN EVENSON on Stephen Marche’s Shining at the Bottom of the Sea
MASHA TUPITSYN on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s Mandarins
DONNA SEAMAN on Terézia Mora’s Day In Day Out
CHRISTINE SMALLWOOD on Christian Oster’s The Unforeseen
INTERVIEW
Bookforum talks with Kate Christensen
COLUMNS
COMING ATTRACTIONS
December Boys, the film; Penguin book covers; the Bookforum literary calendar
COLLECTIONS
Radhika Jones on Alex Ross
LUXURY & DEGRADATION
Elizabeth Schambelan on Tony Duquette
ARTS & CULTURE
LITERARY CRITICISM
JOAN RICHARDSON on Angus Fletcher’s Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare
JENNY DAVIDSON on Maryanne Wolf’s Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain and Jonah Lehrer’s Proust Was a Neuroscientist
BIOGRAPHY
ERIC BANKS on Janet Malcolm’s Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
CULTURAL STUDIES
CAROLINE WEBER on Gerd Gemünden and Mary R. Desjardins’s Dietrich Icon
HISTORY
NOAH ISENBERG on Ehrhard Bahr’s Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism and Eric D. Weitz’s Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
ART
ALISSA QUART on Greg Bottoms’s The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art
CURRENT EVENTS
GERSHOM GORENBERG on Benny Morris’s Making Israel and Ahmad H. Sa’di and Lila Abu-Lughod’s Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory
MUSIC
RICHARD B. WOODWARD on Ben Ratliff’s Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
STEPHANIE HANSON on John Worthen’s Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician and Beate Perrey’s The Cambridge Companion to Schumann
SPORTS
GERALD EARLY on Michael G. Long’s First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson
BRIAN THOMAS GALLAGHER on Mark Maske’s War Without Death: A Year of Extreme Competition in Pro Football’s NFC East
COMICS
MATT MADDEN on Fletcher Hanks’s I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets!
NOTED
JOSCELYN JURICH on Lucy Popescu and Carole Seymour-Jones’s Writers Under Siege: Voices of Freedom from Around the World
ARUNA D’SOUZA on Jonathan Miles’s The Wreck of the Medusa: The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century
IRENE GAMMEL on Allan Antliff’s Anarchy and Art: From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall
ALBERT MOBILIO on Félix Fénéon’s Novels in Three Lines
MARTHA SCHWENDENER on Christian Marclay’s Shuffle
KARIN L. KROSS on Douglas Wolk’s Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean
NICOLE LANCTOT on Paul Hegarty’s Noise/Music: A History
ANDY BATTAGLIA on Michael E. Veal’s Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae
MONOGRAPHS & CATALOGUES
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Zoe Leonard’s Analogue
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Nicolaus Schafhausen’s Isa Genzken: German Pavilion, Venice 2007
