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    • PRIMORDIAL MUSE

      RICHARD CORK on FRANCIS BACON’S SOURCE MATERIAL

    • THE ETERNAL CITY

      PHILIP NOBEL on NEW YORK CITY’S URBAN ECOLOGY

    • CLOUT OF AFRICA

      JAMES GIBBONS on AFRICA’S LITERARY BOOM

    • FICTION FORWARD

    • Excerpt by RYAN BOUDINOT, Art by PAUL HORNSCHEMEIER

    • Excerpt by MICHELLE HUNEVEN, Art by GABRIELLE BELL

    • Excerpt by TERRENCE HOLT, Art by LAUREN WEINSTEIN

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    • Excerpt by HOLLY GODDARD JONES, Art by CHRIS WARE

  • Fiction & Poetry

    • MARJORIE PERLOFF on The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume 1: 1929–1940 edited by Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and Lois More Overbeck

    • DAPHNE MERKIN on The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys by Lilian Pizzichini

    • PETER TERZIAN on The Complete Fiction by Francis Wyndham

    • MARK ROZZO on Big Machine by Victor LaValle

    • JANE CIABATTARI on Trouble by Kate Christensen

    • AMY ROSENBERG on In the Kitchen by Monica Ali

    • JOHANNAH RODGERS on A Monster’s Notes by Laurie Sheck

    • BEN SCHWARTZ on Sunnyside by Glen David Gold

    • DONNA SEAMAN on The Girl with Brown Fur: Tales and Stories by Stacey Levine

    • ANDREA WALKER on Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing by Lydia Peelle

    • ANGE MLINKO on Hollywood & God by Robert Polito and Assorted Poems by Susan Wheeler

  • Columns

    • THE MOVIEGOER

      Harry Potter and Easy Virtue

    • INTERVIEW

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    • PAPER PALATE

      Melanie Rehak on sweet treats

    • LAST THINGS

      John L. Esposito on the clash of civilizations

    • LUXURY & DEGRADATION

      Margo Jefferson on black performers

  • Nonfiction

    • MAX KOZLOFF on Wounded Cities by Leo Rubinfien

    • MICHAEL KAZIN on American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone by D. D. Guttenplan

    • ELIZABETH WILSON on Diaries by Sergey Prokofiev, Sergey Prokofiev and His World edited by Simon Morrison, and The People’s Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years by Simon Morrison

    • MARK GREIF on The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing by Mark McGurl

    • MAUD NEWTON on Witnessing Suburbia: Conservatives and Christian Youth Culture by Eileen Luhr and To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise by Bethany Moreton

    • JEFF STEIN on Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia by David Vine

    • CATHERINE TUMBER on Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh by Gerald Grant

    • SONYA GEIS on West of the West: Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State by Mark Arax

    • GAL BECKERMAN on Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West by Christopher Caldwell

    • TRINIE DALTON on Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart and Mushroom Magick: A Visionary Field Guide by Arik Roper

    • BRITT PETERSON on The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession by Andrea Wulf

    • DAVID YAFFE on Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns

    • ARTHUR C. DANTO on Robert Ryman: Used Paint by Suzanne P. Hudson

    • STEFANIE SOBELLE on Picasso and the Allure of Language edited by Susan Greenberg Fisher

    • ROBERT O. PAXTON on The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation by Frederic Spotts, Art of the Defeat: France 1940–1944 by Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, and Bronzes to Bullets: Vichy and the Destruction of French Public Statuary, 1941–1944 by Kirrily Freeman

    • CAITLIN ROPER on 117 Days by Ruth First

    • JOSCELYN JURICH on Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown by Jennifer Scanlon

    • NICOLE RUDICK on Black Light by Kehinde Wiley

    • ERYN LOEB on Not Becoming My Mother: And Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way by Ruth Reichl

    • TIMOTHY FARRINGTON on Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music by Greg Milner

    • ALBERT MOBILIO on Woman Twirling by Jo Ann Callis

    • DOUGLAS WOLK on Pixu: The Mark of Evil by Gabriel Bá, Becky Cloonan, Vasilis Lolos, and Fábio Moon

    • PHILIP WOMACK on The Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else by Christopher R. Beha


One Ring Circus:

Dispatches from the World of Boxing

by Katherine Dunn

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The Book Shopper:

A Life in Review

by Murray Browne

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Not Becoming My Mother:

and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way

by Ruth Reichl

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The Hospital for Bad Poets:

Stories

by J. C. Hallman

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Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity (Profiles in Popular Music)

by Leigh Edwards

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Nog

by Rudolph Wurlitzer

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Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism

by Cathy Gere

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Jo Ann Callis:

Woman Twirling

by Judith Keller

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Big Machine:

A Novel

by Victor LaValle

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The Shame of Survival:

Working Through a Nazi Childhood

by Ursula Mahlendorf

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