Cheating at Canasta; Frankenstein: A Cultural History; Notes From the Air; Anselm Kiefer; Monuments: America’s History in Art and Memory; In for a Pound; Across the Tibetan Plateau; Chicago; Borat Tourist Guidings to Minor Nation of U.S. and A; The Most Notorious Crimes in American History
Robert Birnbaum on: The War; Takeover; Blacklisted by History; War and Peace; Down River; The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations; The Rolling Stone Interviews; Like You’d Understand, Anyway; Poetry Speaks Expanded; Finding Iris Chang; Ghost; Shaggy Muses
Robert Birnbaum on: The Paris Review Interviews, Part II; Napoleon’s Egypt; BibliOdyssey; Option$; Filthy Shakespeare; Last Night at the Lobster; Orpheus Lost; Matrimony; The Pleasures of the Damned; The Lamentations of Julius Marantz; Classics for Pleasure; Touch and Go
Robert Birnbaum on: The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo; Musicophilia; Our Dumb World; Life, in Pictures; The Used World; Shakespeare: The World as Stage; Esalen; Bowl of Cherries; The End of the Victory Culture; The Chopin Manuscript
Robert Birnbaum on: Turpentine; The Terror Presidency; Blonde Faith; Coltrane: the Story of a Sound; Who Named the Knife; The Art of the American Snapshot; The Air We Breathe; McSweeney’s Quarterly No. 24; Redemption Falls; Exit Ghost; The Rest Is Noise; The Toothpick; James Sturm’s America
Robert Birnbaum on: Chicago’s Nelson Algren; De Niro’s Game; The Plenitude; A Secular Age; Other Colors; Ovenman; Shortcomings; Silent Theater; The Best American Essays 2007; They Called Me Mayer July; Grub; Ploughshares Fall 2007
It's humans' flaws that make the world go round, and novelist Susanna Moore examines them under intense magnification. She chats with our man in Boston about crime and punishment.
Autonauts of the Cosmoroute; Tender as Hellfire; The Shock Doctrine; An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England; The Water Cure; The Coldest Winter; Ron Carlson Writes a Story; Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man; Vanilla Bright Like Eminem; Diaries 1969-1979; The Most Arrogant Man in France
Brother, I’m Dying; (Not That You Asked); The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears; Look Me in the Eye; Think With the Senses Feel With the Mind; Edmund Wilson: Literary Essays and Reviews; Red Rover; The Baroque World of Fernando Botero; The End of America; On Suicide Bombing; The Guardians
The Best American Poetry, 2007; Shining at the Bottom of the Sea; In a Cardboard Belt; The Pirate’s Daughter; New Stories From the South; Song for Night; War and Peace; A Natural History of Time; China: Travels Between the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers; The Center Cannot Hold; Tree of Smoke
