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The Quick-Change Artist
LUCY SANTE on Geoff Dyer’s Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews
Under Western Lies
HUSSEIN IBISH on The Myth of the Arab Street
New Heroes for Old
Plus: GERSHOM GORENBERG on Nonviolent Protest
How Much Did Social Media contribute to Revolution in the Middle East?
WEB EXCLUSIVE: EVGENY MOROZOV: How Much Did Social Media contribute to Revolution in the Middle East?
MELANIE REHAK: Grant Achatz’s Life, on the Line
MICHAEL GREENBERG on familial estrangement
GERALD HOWARD on the cult film Performance
ROBERT POLITO: Jean-Patrick Manchette’s Fatale
STEPHEN BURN: Paula Fox’s News from the World: Stories & Essays
ERIC BANKS: Peter Stamm’s Seven Years
DAVID HAGLUND: Blake Butler’s There Is No Year
MICHAEL WOOD: Lynne Tillman’s Someday This Will Be Funny
JUSTIN TAYLOR: Jim Shepard’s You Think That’s Bad
DARRELL HARTMAN: Anne Roiphe’s Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust Without Reason
MIRIAM KATZ: Demetri Martin’s This Is a Book
TIMOTHY FARRINGTON: Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein
JANINE ARMIN: Chris Kraus’s Where Art Belongs
ROB SPILLMAN: Georges Perec’s The Art and Craft of Approaching Your Head of Department to Submit a Request for a Raise
JANE CIABATTARI: Francisco Goldman’s Say Her Name
FRANCES RICHARD: Alice Notley’s Culture of One
LEO ROBSON: Chris Adrian’s The Great Night
DAPHNE MERKIN: Margaux Fragoso’s Tiger, Tiger
MATTHEW PRICE: Adam Hochschild’s To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918
RIAN MALAN: R. W. Johnson’s South Africa’s Brave New World: The Beloved Country Since the End of Apartheid, Peter Godwin’s The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe, and Stephen Chan’s Southern Africa: Old Treacheries and New Deceits
NATHAN LEE: Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward‘s Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, The Fair Society: The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice by Peter Corning, and Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street by Tomá? Sedlá?ek
ALEX PAREENE: Andrew Breitbart‘s Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!
HUA HSU: Ai Weiwei’s Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006–2009
CHARLES PETERSEN: Siva Vaidhyanathan‘s The Googlization of Everything (and Why We Should Worry)
JENNA SAUERS: Yohji Yamamoto and Ai Mitsuda‘s My Dear Bomb and Ligaya Salazar‘s Yohji Yamamoto
LINDA DELIBERO: Carrie Pitzulo’s Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy
SCOTT MCLEMEE: Rosa Luxemburg‘s Letters
JOHANNA FATEMAN: Dorian Lynskey’s 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day and David W. Stowe‘s No Sympathy for the Devil: Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism
KOLBY YARNELL: John Szwed’s Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World
AMANDA LITTLE: Alexis Madrigal’s Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology