Sept/Oct/Nov 2007 • Table of Contents
ROAMIN' LEGIONS
DAVID L. ULIN on THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF JACK KEROUAC'S ON THE ROAD
CONVERSATION STARTER
JESSE BROWNER on MME DE RAMBOUILLET AND THE BIRTH OF THE SALON
AFTER THE LAST INTELLECTUAL
SCOTT MCLEMEE on THE LEGACY OF RUSSELL JACOBY’S DIRGE FOR THE FREELANCE THINKER
FEATURED REVIEWS
ERIC KLINENBERG on NAOMI KLEIN’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
MORRIS DICKSTEIN on EDMUND WHITE’s Hotel de Dream: A New York Novel
JOHN LICHFIELD on GEERT MAK’s In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century
ARTHUR C. DANTO on RICHARD RORTY’s Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers
FICTION
MARCELA VALDES on Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
JOHN PALATTELLA on Susan Howe's My Emily Dickinson and Souls of the Labadie Tract
FRANCES RICHARD on Francis Picabia's I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation
CARLA BLUMENKRANZ on Jason Brown’s Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work
CRAIG MORGAN TEICHER on C. D. Wright’s One Big Self: An Investigation
BRIAN EVENSON on Stephen Marche’s Shining at the Bottom of the Sea
INTERVIEW
COLUMNS
COMING ATTRACTIONS
December Boys , the film; Penguin book covers; the Bookforum literary calendar
COLLECTIONS
LUXURY & DEGRADATION
ARTS & CULTURE
LITERARY CRITICISM
JOAN RICHARDSON on Angus Fletcher’s Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare
BIOGRAPHY
CULTURAL STUDIES
CAROLINE WEBER on Gerd Gemünden and Mary R. Desjardins’s Dietrich Icon
HISTORY
ART
ALISSA QUART on Greg Bottoms’s The Colorful Apocalypse: Journeys in Outsider Art
CURRENT EVENTS
MUSIC
RICHARD B. WOODWARD on Ben Ratliff’s Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
SPORTS
COMICS
MATT MADDEN on Fletcher Hanks’s I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets!
NOTED
KARIN L. KROSS on Douglas Wolk’s Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean
ANDY BATTAGLIA on Michael E. Veal’s Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae
MONOGRAPHS & CATALOGUES
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Nicolaus Schafhausen’s Isa Genzken: German Pavilion, Venice 2007
