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Scott McLemee on Antonio Negri
Allen Barra on V. S. Naipaul
Keith Gessen on Alexandr Solzhenitsyn and Edward Said
Ross Benjamin on Sándor Márai
Lorraine Adams on Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
Maria Tatar on The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia by Laura Miller
Erik Davis on My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian
Vince Passaro on Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth
Andrea Walker on The Sky Below by Stacey D’Erasmo
Lenora Todaro on All Aboard by Joe Ashby Porter
Ceridwen Dovey on Disquiet by Julia Leigh
Benjamin Strong on Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun
Christopher R. Beha on Me and Kaminski by Daniel Kehlmann
Jason Weiss on Death with Interruptions by José Saramago
Matthew Ladd on Factory of Tears by Valzhyna Mort
Lee Rourke on Noir by Olivier Pauvert
Ed Park on Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine by Stanley Crawford
Sara Ivry on I Smile Back by Amy Koppelman
Tom Roberge on Livability by Jon Raymond
Tom Leclair on The Easy Chain by Evan Dara
The Road and Sherlock Holmes
Bookforum talks with Timothy Ryback about Hitler's library
Bookforum talks with David Rhodes
Katherine Ashenburg on baths
Craig Seligman on Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947–1963 by Susan Sontag
Brian Gilmore on How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon by David R. Roediger and What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America by Ariela J. Gross
T. J. Jackson Lears on Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America’s Culture of Death by Mark S. Schantz and This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
Michael Gorra on The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples by Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller
Ann Friedman on Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women’s Reproduction in America by Jeanne Flavin and The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance and Democracy’s Future by Carol Gilligan and David A. J. Richards
David Kusnet on Trucking Country: The Road to America’s Wal-Mart Economy by Shane Hamilton and A People’s History of Poverty in America by Stephen Pimpare
Hannah Bloch on Islamism in the Shadow of al-Qaeda by François Burgat and The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics by Faisal Devji
Chris Lehmann on Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood
J. Hoberman on Tarkovsky edited by Nathan Dunne and Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema by Robert Bird
Christine Schwartz Hartley on Le Corbusier: A Life by Nicholas Fox Weber
Laura Kipnis on Screening Sex by Linda Williams
Gerd Gemünden on Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era edited by Noah Isenberg
John Rockwell on John Zorn: Tradition and Transgression by John Brackett
Karen Emmerich on Surrealism in Greece: An Anthology edited by Nikos Stabakis
Andrew Hultkrans on Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton
Michael Roth on Four Jews on Parnassus—A Conversation: Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, Schönberg by Carl Djerassi
James Gibbons on A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns by John Yau
Ian Volner on Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles by Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly
Martha Schwendener on A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World by Marcia Tucker
Albert Mobilio on William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961–2008 by Elisabeth Sussman and Thomas Weski
Deb Vanasse on Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People by William L. Iggiagruk Hensley
Brian Cook on You Can’t Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America by John R. MacArthur
Paul la Farge on The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons and Growing Up Strange by Mark Barrowcliffe
Nicole Rudick on The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet by David Okuefuna
Natasha Randall on Dust by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko
Nicole Lanctot on Land 250 and Trois by Patti Smith
Craig Morgan Teicher on Letters to Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics, and Community edited by Jennifer Firestone and Dana Teen Lomax
