Feb/Mar 2008 • Table of Contents
FEATURED REVIEWS
SARAH KERR on MICHAEL POLLAN’s In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
GERALD EARLY on RANDALL KENNEDY’s Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal
JED RASULA on DARREN WERSHLER-HENRY and LORI EMERSON’s The Alphabet Game: A bpNichol Reader
SVEN BIRKERTS on KNUT HAMSUN’s Hunger and Growth of the Soil
ARTS & CULTURE
BRIAN SHOLIS on Eric G. Wilson’s Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy
HISTORY
NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN on Hugh Wilford’s The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America
BIOGRAPHY
MATTHEW PRICE on Richard M. Cook’s Alfred Kazin: A Biography
DONALD WEBER on Philip Davis’s Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life
PHOTOGRAPHY
DARIUS HIMES on Max Kozloff’s The Theatre of the Face: Portrait Photography Since 1900
CRITICAL THEORY
NATHAN HELLER on Alice Becker-Ho and Guy Debord’s A Game of War
NOTED
ANDY BATTAGLIA on Carl Wilson’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
KIM TODD on Jonathan Rosen’s The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature
ESSAYS
VANESSA PLACE on Liz Kotz’s Words to Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art
GEETA DAYAL on Eric Weisbard’s Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music
