Apr/May 2008 • Table of Contents
FEATURED REVIEWS
MICHAEL TOMASKY on MARTIN AMIS’s The Second Plane: September 11, Terror and Boredom
LORRAINE ADAMS on JAMES MEEK’s We Are Now Beginning Our Descent
WENDY LESSER on MARK RICHARDSON’s The Collected Prose of Robert Frost
ALAN GILBERT on PETER SCHJELDAHL’s Let’s See: Writings on Art from the New Yorker
MONOGRAPHS & CATALOGUES
ARTS & CULTURE
EXCERPT
HISTORY
COLM TÓIBÍN on R. F. Foster’s Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change from 1970
CURRENT AFFAIRS
PHILOSOPHY
CARLIN ROMANO on François Jullien’s Vital Nourishment: Departing from Happiness
ART HISTORY
NICO ISRAEL on Erin Hogan’s Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip Through the Land Art of the American West
COMICS
SOCIOLOGY
LITERARY CRITICISM
SPORTS
RATTAWUT LAPCHAROENSAP on David Goldblatt’s The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Soccer
HISTORY
LITERARY HISTORY
ESSAYS
BRIAN SHOLIS on Alberto Manguel’s The Library at Night and The City of Words
NOTED
LILY BURANA on Alexandra Fuller’s The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
SUSIE LINFIELD on Michael Hodges’s AK-47: The Story of a Gun
NOAH ISENBERG on Tilman Allert’s The Hitler Salute: On the Meaning of a Gesture
REBECCA REICH on Christopher Robbins’s Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land That Disappeared
EMILY BARTON on Morrison H. Heckscher’s Creating Central Park
