Apr/May 2008 • Table of Contents
INNER-CITY MUSE
JAMES GIBBONS ON RICHARD PRICE
WOMEN UNDER THE INFLUENCE
NANA ASFOUR ON IRANIAN-AMERICAN WOMEN NOVELISTS
NIXONLAND
RICK PERLSTEIN’S NEW HISTORY, EXCERPTED
FEATURED REVIEWS
MICHAEL GORRA on CYNTHIA OZICK’s Dictation: A Quartet
MICHAEL TOMASKY on MARTIN AMIS’s The Second Plane: September 11, Terror and Boredom
LORRAINE ADAMS on JAMES MEEK’s We Are Now Beginning Our Descent
MICHAEL ROTH on LEO BERSANI and ADAM PHILLIPS’s Intimacies
PATRICK MCGRATH on ALEKSANDAR HEMON’s The Lazarus Project
CRAIG SELIGMAN on BRIAN HALL’s Fall of Frost
WENDY LESSER on MARK RICHARDSON’s The Collected Prose of Robert Frost
ERIK DAVIS on RUDOLPH WURLITZER’s The Drop Edge of Yonder
ALAN GILBERT on PETER SCHJELDAHL’s Let’s See: Writings on Art from the New Yorker
FICTION
LENORA TODARO on Gary Amdahl’s I Love Death: Two Novellas
STACEY LEVINE on Josh Barkan’s Blind Speed
JONATHAN RAYMOND on Colin Harrison’s The Finder
JON BASKIN on Keith Gessen’s All the Sad Young Literary Men
DARCY COSPER on Andrew Sean Greer’s The Story of a Marriage
DOUGLAS MULLINS on Nathaniel Mackey’s Bass Cathedral
LAIRD HUNT on Nam Le’s The Boat
TIM GRIFFIN on Cole Swensen’s Ours
TESS LEWIS on Alain Claude Sulzer’s A Perfect Waiter
STEPHANIE ZACHAREK on Nina Revoyr’s The Age of Dreaming
AMY ROSENBERG on Etgar Keret’s The Girl on the Fridge
BRYAN WALSH on Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem
LAUREN SANDERS on Jim Krusoe’s Girl Factory
YONA ZELDIS MCDONOUGH on Louise Erdrich’s The Plague of Doves
INTERVIEW
Bookforum talks with Jhumpa Lahiri
MONOGRAPHS & CATALOGUES
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Joe Brainard’s The Nancy Book
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Dennis Balk’s Colin De Land, American Fine Arts
COLUMNS
COMING ATTRACTIONS
Snow Angels, the film; the Bookforum literary calendar
COLLECTIONS
Radhika Jones on Daniel Menaker
REWRITE
John Freeman on Randall Jarrell
SHELF LIFE
Nicole Rudick on Rocketship
LUXURY & DEGRADATION
Jessica Joffe on Melody Petersen’s Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs
ARTS & CULTURE
EXCERPT
Key Words
HISTORY
COLM TÓIBÍN on R. F. Foster’s Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change from 1970
CURRENT AFFAIRS
ROSIE BLAU on on Liao Yiwu’s The Corpse Walker: Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up and Floris-Jan van Luyn’s A Floating City of Peasants: The Great Migration in Contemporary China
PHILOSOPHY
CARLIN ROMANO on François Jullien’s Vital Nourishment: Departing from Happiness
ART HISTORY
NICO ISRAEL on Erin Hogan’s Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip Through the Land Art of the American West
COMICS
J. HOBERMAN on Mark Evanier’s Kirby: King of Comics
CHRIS WARE on David Kunzle’s Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer and Rodolphe Töpffer: The Complete Comic Strips
SOCIOLOGY
SCOTT MCLEMEE on Richard Sennett’s The Craftsman
LITERARY CRITICISM
MATTHEW PRICE on Samuele F. S. Pardini’s The Devil Gets His Due: The Uncollected Essays of Leslie Fiedler
SPORTS
RATTAWUT LAPCHAROENSAP on David Goldblatt’s The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Soccer
HISTORY
BRIAN THOMAS GALLAGHER on Alex Abella’s Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire
LITERARY HISTORY
ELIZABETH L. BRADLEY on Catherine O’Donnell Kaplan’s Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship
ESSAYS
BRIAN SHOLIS on Alberto Manguel’s The Library at Night and The City of Words
NOTED
LILY BURANA on Alexandra Fuller’s The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
SUSIE LINFIELD on Michael Hodges’s AK-47: The Story of a Gun
NOAH ISENBERG on Tilman Allert’s The Hitler Salute: On the Meaning of a Gesture
REBECCA REICH on Christopher Robbins’s Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared
EMILY BARTON on Morrison H. Heckscher’s Creating Central Park
KAREN KARBO on Sloane Crosley’s I Was Told There’d Be Cake
