June/July/Aug 2007 • Table of Contents
FEATURED REVIEWS
Alex Abramovich on Leonard Michaels's The Collected Stories and Sylvia
James Surowiecki on Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Ross Benjamin on Peter Handke's Crossing the Sierra de Gredos
FICTION
Geoff Nicholson on Jeremy Reed's A Stranger on Earth: The Life and Work of Anna Kavan
Amy Gerstler on Miranda July’s No One Belongs Here More than You
Paul Maliszewski on Alexander Theroux’s Laura Warholic; or The Sexual Intellectual
Heather Havrilesky on Jack Pendarvis's Your Body Is Changing
Nina Mehta on Viken Berberian’s Das Kapital: A Novel of Love and Money Markets
Stefanie Sobelle on Gabriel Josipovici’s Goldberg: Variations
INTERVIEW
COLUMNS
COMING ATTRACTIONS
Translating comic books for the screen; book trailers; the Bookforum literary calendar
SHELF LIFE
COLLECTIONS
LUXURY & DEGRADATION
ARTS & CULTURE
BIOGRAPHY
Clive Fisher on Martin Duberman’s The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein
SPORTS
PERFORMANCE
Melissa Harris on Carolyn Brown’s Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham
HISTORY
CRITICAL THEORY
PHILOSOPHY
Michael Roth on Jean-Luc Nancy’s Multiple Arts: The Muses II and The Ground of the Image
CRITICAL THEORY
HISTORY
David Greenberg on Michael A. Lerner’s Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City
NOTED
Valerie Steiker on Shocking Life: The Autobiography of Elsa Schiaparelli
Liz Brown on Rebecca Solnit’s Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
Johannah Rodgers on Emily Cockayne’s Hubbub: Filth, Noise and Stench in England, 1600–1770
Jesse Lichtenstein on David R. Montgomery's Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
