COLUMNS
Critical Condition
SVEN BIRKERTS on book reviewing and current literary culture
Fighting Words
SCOTT McLEMEE on Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus
The Story of the I
RICHARD WOLIN on Georges Bataille
Making Pound New
GUY DAVENPORT on Ezra Pound’s Poems and Translations
BETWEEN THE LINES Avital Ronell on Valerie Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto
Lee Smith on Wilfred Thesiger
Andrew Ross: Weather Report
ART INK Daniel Birnbaum on Fischli & Weiss
ART INK Nancy Princenthal on Onestar Press
LUXURY AND DEGRADATION Rhonda Lieberman on the letters of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger
AMMIEL ALCALAY on The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov
VIVIAN GORNICK on Walter Abish’s Double Vision
STACEY D’ERASMO on Edward St. Aubyn’s Some Hope
ART WINSLOW on Jim Shepard’s Love & Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories and Project X
NEIL GORDON on Harvey Swados’s Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn
RICHARD HELL on Robert Creeley’s If I Were Writing This
PETER PLAGENS on John Le Carré’s Absolute Friends
EMILY BARTON on Gary Lutz’s I Looked Alive
KERA BOLONIK on Kate Christensen’s The Epicure’s Lament
MARJORIE PERLOFF on Guillaume Apollinaire’s Self-Dismembered Man: Selected Later Poems
FRANCINE PROSE on Lucasta Miller’s The Brontë Myth
GREG BOTTOMS on Geoffrey O’Brien’s Sonata for Jukebox: Pop Music, Memory, and the Imagined Life
MATTHEW PRICE on Murray Kempton’s Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties, James T. Farrell’s Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy, and Robert K. Landers’s An Honest Writer: The Life and Times of James T. Farrell
KENT JONES on Colin MacCabe’s Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy
MICHAEL RUSH on Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel’s Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary After Film
THOMAS CROW on Philippe-Alain Michaud’s Aby Warburg and the Image in Motion
MARK GODFREY on Mel Bochner’s Spéculations: Écrits, 1965–1973
EDDIE DEAN on Ed Cray’s Ramblin’ Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie
June Newton, Mrs. Newton
Constance M. Lewallen and Steve Seid, Ant Farm: 1968–1978
Ed Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings Vol. 1: 1958–1970
Radu Stern, Against Fashion: Clothing as Art, 1850–1930
Nicole Rudick on Jacques Jouet’s Mountain R
Yona Zeldis McDonough on Catherine Texier’s Victorine
Thomas D’Adamo on Joseph Gangemi’s Inamorata
Barry Schwabsky on Barbara Guest’s Dürer in the Window: Reflexions on Art
Martha Schwendener on Jerry Saltz’s Seeing Out Loud
Kate Bolick on Robert Sullivan’s Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants
Michael Wilson on Vik Muniz’s Natura Pictrix: Interviews and Essays on Photography