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Last Words: Dave Eggers on art that kills

Exquisite Corpses: Walter Kirn on posthumous novels

Interview: Lorrie Moore “talks” with Rick Moody

Fiction Forecast by Jonathan Bing

Sign Wars: Mark Dery on high concept design books

Coffee Table: Barry Schwabsky and Andy Grundberg on new monographs

Jennifer Gilmore on A Gesture Life, by Chang-rae Lee

Rob Spillman on Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem

Rachel Urquhart on The Tiny One, by Eliza Minot

Elissa Schappell on Selected Letters of Dawn Powell 1913-1965, edited by Tim Page

Maggie Paley on The Fan-Maker’s Inquisition, by Rikki Ducornet

Jonathan Ames on Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex, edited by Melvin Jules Bukiet

Helen Schulman on Hitler’s Niece, by Ron Hansen

Darcey Steinke on Enchanted Night, by Steven Millhauser

Susan Minot on The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh, by Evelyn Waugh

Rick Moody on Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1957-1969, edited with an introduction and commentary by Ann Charters

Sven Birkerts on Juneteenth, by Ralph Ellison, edited by John F. Callahan

Elizabeth Gaffney on Lovers for a Day: New and Collected Stories, by Ivan Klíma

Peter Plagens on The Fake: Forgery and Its Place in Art, by Sándor Radnóti, translated by Ervin Dunai

Ronald Jones on The Black Box: All-New Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts of In-flight Accidents, edited by Malcolm MacPherson

Tom Vanderbilt on The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney’s New Town, by Andrew Ross

Kristin Ross on Guy Debord, by Anselm Jappe, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith

Julia Scher on The Seventies Now: Culture as Surveillance, by Stephen Paul Miller

Arthur C. Danto on Stephen Spender: A Life in Modernism, by David Leeming

Brian Wallis on From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky, by Matthew Spender

Carla Sinclair on The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order, edited by Marcelle Karp and Debbie Stoller

David Bowman on Surreal Lives: The Surrealists 1917-1945, by Ruth Brandon

Dennis Cooper on Fucked Up and Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement, edited by Bryan Ray Turcotte and Christopher T. Miller

Michael FitzGerald on Matisse: Father & Son, by John Russell

Lee Smith on Selected Non-Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Eliot Weinberger, translated by Eliot Weinberger, Esther Allen, and Suzanne Jill Levine

Andrew Sarris on Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934, by Thomas Doherty; and Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood, by Mark A. Vieira