Kate Bernheimer on the new tale: The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, by A.S. Byatt; Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday, edited by Italo Calvino; Vincent's Tale: A Bedtime Story for Boyfriends, by Nolan A. Dennett; A Blessing on the Moon, by Joseph Skibell; The Embroidered Shoes, by Can Xue
Serge Guilbaut on Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist, by Caroline A. Jones
Lisa Liebmann on Paper Museum: Writing About Painting, Mostly, by Andrew Graham-Dixon; and Blimey! From Bohemia to Britpop: The London Artworld from Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst, by Matthew Collings
David Frankel on I Want to Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now, by Damien Hirst
Svetlana Boym on Painting by Numbers: Komar and Melamid's Scientific Guide to Art, by Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, edited by JoAnn Wypijewski
Erica Rand on An Intimate Distance: Women, Artists, and the Body, by Rosemary Betterton; and Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture, by Mira Schor
Marvin Heiferman on The End of Innocence: Photographs from the Decades that Defined Pop: The 1950s to 1970s, edited by Liz Jobey; Real Fantasies: Edward Steichen's Advertising Photography, by Patricia Johnston; Seydou's Keïta, edited by André Magnin; On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam, by Joel Sternfeld
