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Matthew Price on John Cheever
Jeffrey Kastner, Tom McCarthy, Nato Thompson, and Eyal Weizman
Richard Ford on Frank Bascombe
William Giraldi on Laish by Aharon Appelfeld
Eric Banks on Waveland by Frederick Barthelme
James Gibbons on The Shanghai Gesture by Gary Indiana
Joseph Donahue on The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems by Agha Shahid Ali
John Freeman on Leaving Tangier by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Noah Isenberg on Shadow and Light by Jonathan Rabb
Sandra Newman on A Fortunate Age by Joanna Smith Rakoff
Greil Marcus on Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
Jed Lipinski on Unplugging Philco by Jim Knipfel
Thomas Israel Hopkins on Pandora in the Congo by Albert Sánchez Piñol
Colin Fleming on The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
Kevin Canfield on Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
Zoë Slutzky on All the Living by C. E. Morgan
Laura Stokes on Castle by J. Robert Lennon
Noah Eli Gordon on The Sound Mirror by Andrew Joron
Matthew Ladd on In the United States of Africa by Abdourahman A. Waberi
Tim Griffin on Versed by Rae Armantrout
Paul Grimstad on Lucretius's De rerum natura
The Great Gatsby and The Informers
Bookforum talks with Geoff Dyer
Victor LaValle on the end of black nationalism
Leslie Savan on catalog shopping
Peter Gay on Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century by Jenny Davidson
Marjorie Perloff on House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh
Chris Rasmussen on Seaway to the Future: American Social Visions and the Construction of the Panama Canal by Alexander Missal and The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the Panama Canal by Julie Greene
David Mulcahey on Nice Work if You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times by Andrew Ross
Matthew Yglesias on The Godfather Doctrine: A Foreign Policy Parable by John C. Hulsman and A. Wess Mitchell and The Myth of American Exceptionalism by Godfrey Hodgson
Chris Lehmann on The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America by William Kleinknecht
Choire Sicha on The Age of Anxiety: A History of America’s Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers by Andrea Tone
Mark Kingwell on The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self by Thomas Metzinger and Why Us? How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves by James Le Fanu
Martin Puchner on Logics of Worlds, Conditions, and The Meaning of Sarkozy by Alain Badiou
Peter Manseau on When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Linda Nochlin on The Journals of Grace Hartigan, 1951–1955 edited by William T. La Moy and Joseph P. McCaffrey
Laura Frost on Gypsy: The Art of the Tease by Rachel Shteir and Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee by Noralee Frankel
Mark Caldwell on Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York by Donna Dennis
Ben Schwartz on The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics by Denis Kitchen and Paul Buhle and Humbug by Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis, Will Elder, Al Jaffee, and Arnold Roth
Joe McCulloch on A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Erkki Huhtamo on White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960–1980 edited by Paul Brown, Charlie Gere, Nicholas Lambert, and Catherine Mason
Ben Kafka on Franz Kafka: The Office Writings edited by Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg, and Benno Wagner
Greg Bottoms on Painting a Hidden Life: The Art of Bill Traylor by Mechal Sobel
Polly Shulman on Kitchen Essays by Agnes Jekyll
Albert Mobilio on Lance Letscher: Collage
Mark Lamster on A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, A World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played by Marshall Jon Fisher
Timothy Hodler on The Bun Field by Amanda Vähämäki
Nicole Rudick on Kandinsky edited by Helmut Friedel and Annegret Hoberg
Irene Gammel on The Passive Vampire by Ghérasim Luca
Nicole Rudick on Beasts! Book One and Beasts! Book Two edited by Jacob Covey
Wesley Yang on What Are Intellectuals Good For? by George Scialabba
