Dec/Jan 2008 • Table of Contents
FEATURED REVIEWS
MARJORIE PERLOFF on JOHN ASHBERY’s Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems
GAL BECKERMAN on ORLANDO FIGES’s The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia
PAUL MALISZEWSKI on MAX APPLE’s The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories
BILLY COLLINS on PIERRE BAYARD’s How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
FRAMING THE QUESTION
COLUMNS
COMING ATTRACTIONS
Youth Without Youth , the film; the Bookforum literary calendar
COLLECTIONS
SHELF LIFE
REWRITE
LUXURY & DEGRADATION
ARTS & CULTURE
MUSIC
STEPHANIE HANSON on Alex Ross’s The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
MUSIC
JESSICA JOFFE on Charlotte Mosley’s The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
LATIN AMERICA
SUZANNE RUTA on Francisco Goldman’s The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
FILM
NOAH ISENBERG on Foster Hirsch’s Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King
CULTURAL HISTORY
MATTHEW PRICE on Peter Gay’s Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond
INTERVIEW
Morris Dickstein talks with Lewis Dabney about Edmund Wilson
FOOD
MELANIE REHAK on Gillian Riley’s The Oxford Companion to Italian Food
LITERARY HISTORY
ANTHONY GRAFTON on William H. Sherman’s Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England
PHILOSOPHY
SAM STARK on Tamara Chaplin’s Turning On the Mind: French Philosophers on Television
WOMEN’S STUDIES
NOTED
ALICE ECHOLS on Suzanne Braun Levine and Mary Thom’s Bella Abzug
ALBERT MOBILIO on Robert Scotto’s Moondog, the Viking of 6th Avenue
CHRISTINE SCHWARTZ HARTLEY on Willis Goth Regier’s In Praise of Flattery
TOM NAWROCKI on Ned Sublette’s The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
MONOGRAPHS & CATALOGUES
