Bruce Hainley on The Women, by Hilton Als

Charles Harrison on The Return of the Real: the Avant-Garde at the End of the Century, by Hal Foster

Barry Schwabsky on Tony Cragg, by Germano Celant

Alan Gussow on Wolf Kahn, by Justin Spring

Amy Baker Sandback on Ink, Paper, Metal, Wood: Painters and Sculptors at Crown Point Press, by Kathan Brown

Ernest Pascucci on Architecture of Fear, edited by Nan Ellin; Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics, edited by Francesca Hughes; Architecture and Feminism, edited by Debra Coleman, Elizabeth Danze, and Carol Henderson; Chora L Works, by Jacques Derrida and Peter Eisenman, edited by Jeffrey Kipnis and Thomas Leeser

Richard Shiff on Manet's Modernism or, The Face of Painting in the 1860s, by Michael Fried

Dore Ashton on Art of the Postmodern Era: From the Late 60s to the Early 90s by Irving Sandler

Arthur C. Danto on The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field, by Pierre Bourdieu

Peter Plagens on Jasper Johns: Privileged Information, by Jill Johnston

Simon Reynolds on A Year with Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno's Diary, by Brian Eno

Howard Hampton on Ultraviolent Movies: From Sam Peckinpah to Quentin Tarantino, by Laurent Bouzereau

Mary Gaitskill on From the Tip of the Toes to the Top of the Hose, by Elmer Batters and Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image, edited by Susie Bright and Jill Posener

Molly Nesbit on Three Artists (Three Women), by Anne Wagner

M.G. Lord on Eat Fat, by Richard Klein

Joy Press on The Shit of God, by Diamanda Galás

Richard Flood on Keith Haring Journals. Introduction by Robert Farris Thompson

Dennis Cooper on The Waterfront Journals, by David Wojnarowicz