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ART & CULTURE Arthur C. Danto on John Ruskin: A Life, by John Batchelor David Toop on Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage, by Albert Glinsky, foreword by Robert Moog Luc Sante on Just Above the Mantelpiece: Mass-Market Masterpieces, by Wayne Hemingway Minna Proctor on Marguerite Duras: A Life, by Laure Adler Nuar Alsadir on The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, edited by Karen V. Kukil David Frankel on Cultivated Impasses: Essays on the Waning of the Avant-Garde 1964�1975, by Max Kozloff William Monahan on The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis Margaret Sundell on Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics, by Marcia Brennan and Democratic Visions: Art and Theory of the Stieglitz Circle, 1924�1934, by Celeste Connor Jim Lewis on Writers at the Movies: Twenty-six Contemporary Authors Celebrate Twenty-six Memorable Movies, edited by Jim Shepard Carlo McCormick on Futura, by Futura, edited by Elizabeth Farrelly Dan Kennedy on When Elephants Paint: The Quest of Two Russian Artists to Save the Elephants of Thailand, by Komar & Melamid with Mia Fineman, introduction by Dave Eggers ART & CULTURE COLUMNS What It Is: Nick Tosches on cool Gimme Shelter: Tom Vanderbilt on the architecture of fear Coffee Table: Barry Schwabsky and Andy Grundberg on art and photo monographs Unreliable Narratives: David Gates on novel history FICTION Greil Marcus on John Henry Days, by Colson Whitehead W.S. Di Piero on The Body Artist, by Don DeLillo James Gibbons on This Is Not a Novel, by David Markson Albert Mobilio on Eclipse, by John Banville Barbara Einzig on The Museum of Useless Efforts, by Cristina Peri Rossi Honor Moore on The Glass Palace, by Amitav Ghosh Eliot Weinberger on The Root and the Flower, by L.H. Myers Mark Caldwell on The Biographer's Tale, by A.S. Byatt Ann Marlowe on Trailer Girl and Other Stories, by Terese Svoboda Lee Smith on Sills: Poems, by Michael O'Brien Marcelle Clements on Perfect Recall: New Stories, by Ann Beattie FICTION COLUMNS First Novels by Darcy Cosper Interview: Haruki Murakami talks with Geoffrey O'Brien Fiction Forecast by Kera Bolonik Ex Libris: Colm T�ib�n on an extraordinary reader |
