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Richard Cork on Francis Bacon’s source material
Philip Nobel on New York City’s urban ecology
James Gibbons on Africa’s literary boom
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
Harry Potter and Easy Virtue
Bookforum talks with Aleksandar Hemon
Melanie Rehak on sweet treats
John L. Esposito on the clash of civilizations
Margo Jefferson on black performers
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
