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ART & CULTURE Peter Plagens on The Fake: Forgery and Its Place in Art, by S�ndor Radn�ti, translated by Ervin Dunai Andrew Sarris on Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930�1934, by Thomas Doherty; and Sin in Soft Focus: Pre-Code Hollywood, by Mark A. Vieira Lee Smith on Selected Non-Fictions, by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Eliot Weinberger, translated by Eliot Weinberger, Esther Allen, and Suzanne Jill Levine Michael FitzGerald on Matisse: Father & Son, by John Russell Dennis Cooper on Fucked Up and Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement, edited by Bryan Ray Turcotte and Christopher T. Miller David Bowman on Surreal Lives: The Surrealists 1917�1945, by Ruth Brandon Carla Sinclair on The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order, edited by Marcelle Karp and Debbie Stoller Brian Wallis on From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky, by Matthew Spender Arthur C. Danto on Stephen Spender: A Life in Modernism, by David Leeming Julia Scher on The Seventies Now: Culture as Surveillance, by Stephen Paul Miller Kristin Ross on Guy Debord, by Anselm Jappe, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith Tom Vanderbilt on The Celebration Chronicles: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property Value in Disney's New Town, by Andrew Ross Ronald Jones on The Black Box: All-New Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts of In-flight Accidents, edited by Malcolm MacPherson ART & CULTURE COLUMNS Coffee Table: Barry Schwabsky and Andy Grundberg on new monographs Sign Wars: Mark Dery on high concept design books Last Words: Dave Eggers on art that kills FICTION Sven Birkerts on Juneteeth, by Ralph Ellison, edited by John F. Callahan Rick Moody on Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1957�1969, edited with an introduction and commentary by Ann Charters Susan Minot on The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh, by Evelyn Waugh Darcey Steinke on Enchanted Night, by Steven Millhauser Helen Schulman on Hitler's Niece, by Ron Hansen Jonathan Ames on Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex, edited by Melvin Jules Bukiet Maggie Paley on The Fan-Maker's Inquisition, by Rikki Ducornet Elissa Schappell on Selected Letters of Dawn Powell 1913�1965, edited by Tim Page Elizabeth Gaffney on Lovers for a Day: New and Collected Stories, by Ivan Kl�ma Rachel Urquhart on The Tiny One, by Eliza Minot Rob Spillman on Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem Jennifer Gilmore on A Gesture Life, by Chang-rae Lee FICTION COLUMNS Fiction Forecast by Jonathan Bing Interview: Lorrie Moore "talks" with Rick Moody Exquisite Corpses: Walter Kirn on posthumous novels |