Archive

Dec/Jan 2012

The 99% Revolution

Special Section
- JEFF SHARLET on how the Occupy Wall Street movement discovered its bliss
- SARAH LEONARD unmasks the financial elite's intellectual pretensions
- SCOTT MCLEMEE on Victor Serge's dissenting legacy
- ANDREW ROSS on the plight of the global precariat
- HARI KUNZRU on Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life
Features
- Satellites of Love
  
  DENNIS LIM ON HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NOVEL OF COSMIC CHAOS
- The Modern Distemper
  
  ROBERT WESTBROOK EXAMINES THE CAREER OF TONY JUDT, ONE OF THE LAST PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS
- Polymorphous Adversity
  
  WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN ON PÉTER NÁDAS'S PARALLEL STORIES
Columns
- THE ACCIDENTALIST
  
  MICHAEL GREENBERG on Germany's shifting postwar legacy
- MELANIE REHAK on Mad Men cuisine
- LUXURY & DEGRADATION
  
  NATASHA VARGAS-COOPER on Marilyn, Mailer, and money
Fiction & Poetry
- LAURA KIPNIS: Michel Houellebecq's The Map and the Territory
- MARJORIE PERLOFF: The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 1: 1898–1922, Revised Edition and The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 2: 1923–1925
- FIONA MAAZEL: Ben Marcus's The Flame Alphabet
- JAMES GREER: Kate Zambreno's Green Girl
- ED PARK: Lars Arffssen's The Girl with the Sturgeon Tattoo: A Parody and Lawrence Douglas's The Vices
- ANGE MLINKO: David Trinidad's Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems
- THOMAS MEANEY: Albert Cossery's Proud Beggars and The Colors of Infamy; and Hisham Matar's Anatomy of a Disappearance
- BENJAMIN STRONG: Adam Johnson's The Orphan Master's Son
- EMILY COOKE: Trinie Dalton's Baby Geisha
- ROZALIA JOVANOVIC: Gary Lutz's Divorcer
Nonfiction
- CULTURAL CRITICISM
  
  HEATHER HAVRILESKY: Caitlin Flanagan's Girl Land
- EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
  
  DOUGLAS P. FRY: Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
- BIOGRAPHY
  
  MARK POLIZZOTTI: Alastair Brotchie's Alfred Jarry: A Pataphysical Life
- ART
  
  ARUNA D'SOUZA: Martha Wilson Sourcebook: 40 Years of Reconsidering Performance, Feminism, Alternative Spaces
- RELIGION
  
  JAMES RESTON JR.: Jay Rubenstein's Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse
- SOCIOLOGY
  
  BUZZY JACKSON: Eric Klinenberg's Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone
- CRIME
  
  SAM QUINONES: Ioan Grillo's El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
- MUSIC
  
  JOHANNA FATEMAN: Nile Rodgers's Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny
- ECONOMICS
  
  JESSICA LOUDIS: Michael Lewis's Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
- CULTURAL CRITICISM
  
  MEEHAN CRIST: Alison Winter's Memory: Fragments of a Modern History
Monographs
- ALBERT MOBILIO: James Castle: Show and Store
- MICHAEL LESY: Ernest Cole: Photographer
- JULIA BRYAN-WILSON: Francesca Woodman's Notebook

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