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Benjamin Anastas on Faith in Fiction
Seth Hettena on the Financial Meltdown
Mark Arax on Imperial by William T. Vollmann
Joan Richardson on Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
Gregory Sholette on Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era by Julia Bryan-Wilson
Andrew Ross on Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford and The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
Kim Phillips-Fein on Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity by Loďc Wacquant
Jordan Bear on Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon and Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field by Anne Whiston Spirn
Melanie Rehak on wine and liquor
Bookforum talks with A.S. Byatt
Jessica Joffe on WASPs and money
Paul La Farge on Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Kathryn Harrison on Love in Infant Monkeys by Lydia Millet
Ceridwen Dovey on Fugue State by Brian Evenson
Matthew Shaer on The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Wendy Lesser on Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Tayt Harlin on Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser
Hari Kunzru on Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
Allen Barra on Love and Summer by William Trevor
Kate Zambreno on Western by Christine Montalbetti
Jeff Vandermeer on Mercury Station by Mark von Schlegell
Michael Gorra on A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Carla Blumenkranz on This Is How by M. J. Hyland
Rick Moody on The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? by Padgett Powell
John Domini on Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
Alex Balk on Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder That Rocked New Orleans by Ethan Brown and Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Scott McLemee on Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom by David Harvey
Jim Sleeper on Why Are Jews Liberals? by Norman Podhoretz
Roland Kelts on Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
John Summers on Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Edward Dolnick on The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society by Frans de Waal
Jeet Heer on The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
Britt Peterson on The Queen of the Ring: Sex, Muscles, Diamonds, and the Making of an American Legend by Jeff Leen
Dan Nadel on Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
Lauren Elkin on Gilded Youth: Three Lives in France’s Belle Époque by Kate Cambor
Nathan Heller on A Short History of Cahiers du Cinéma by Emilie Bickerton
Claire Barliant on The Possible Life of Christian Boltanski by Christian Boltanski and Catherine Grenier
Douglas Wolk on Stitches by David Small
Nicole Rudick on Gunta Stölzl: Bauhaus Master edited by Monika Stadler and Yael Aloni
Martha Schwendener on Rock/Music Writings by Dan Graham
Albert Mobilio on What’s It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect edited by Joann Moser
Caitlin Roper on The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox by John Freeman
Brian Sholis on Civic Passions: Seven Who Launched Progressive America (and What They Teach Us) by Cecelia Tichi
