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ART & CULTURE Luc Sante on Where Dead Voices Gather, by Nick Tosches Harry Cooper on Philip Guston's "Poor Richard," by Debra Bricker BalkenDamon Krukowski on Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology, edited by Mary Ann Caws Dani Shapiro on on The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative, by Vivian Gornick Lisa Levy on Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Nancy Milford Minna Proctor on Where the Stress Falls: Essays, by Susan Sontag David Grubbs on The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography, by A.J.A. Symons, introduction by A. S. Byatt ART & CULTURE COLUMNS Horse's Mouth: readers' tips compiled by Laura Mauk Infernal Return: Lee Smith on the Dante revival Coffee Table: Barry Schwabsky and Andy Grundberg on art and photo monographs Paper Trail: Mark Dery on the burden of reams FICTION Benjamin Anastas on The Devil's Larder, by Jim Crace Robert Polito on The Gourmet Club, by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki Vitaly Chernetsky on 4 by Pelevin, by Victor Pelevin Adam Kirsch on Austerlitz, by W.G. Sebald Lynn Crawford on The Complexities of Intimacy, by Mary Caponegro Joshua Clover on To Repel Ghosts, by Kevin Young Sally Eckhoff on Everything You Need, by A. L. Kennedy Alexandra Ringe on The Subject Steve, by Sam Lipsyte John Yau on Dark Back of Time, by Javier Marías Lucinda Rosenfeld on Eva Moves the Furniture, by Margot Livesey Ammiel Alcalay on Charles Olson's Selected Letters, edited by Ralph Maud FICTION COLUMNS Interview: Jim Crace talks with David L. Ulin Fiction Forecast by Kera Bolonik First Novels by Darcy Cosper Meta Morph: Brian Evenson on John Barth's literary legacy |