Otherwise known as the human condition : selected essays and reviews, 1989-2010
Publication Information
Minneapolis, Minn. : Graywolf Press, 2011.
Physical Description
xii, 421 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary
A volume of nonfiction writings and essays by the National Book Critics Circle finalist draws on twenty-five years of work and includes pieces that reflect on subjects ranging from jazz and the British-dole queue to haute couture and hotel sex.
Contents
- Visuals. Jacques Henri Lartigue and the discovery of India
- Robert Capa
- If I die in a combat zone
- Ruth Orkin's V-E Day
- Richard Avedon
- Enrique Metinides
- Joel Sternfeld's utopian visions
- Alec Soth : Riverrun
- Richard Misrach
- William Gedney
- Michael Ackerman
- Miroslav Tichý
- Saving Grace : Todd Hido
- Idris Kahn
- Edward Burtynsky
- Turner and memory
- The American sublime
- The awakening of stones : Rodin
- Ecce homo
- Verbals. D.H. Lawrence : Sons and lovers
- F. Scott Fitzgerald : The beautiful and the damned
- F. Scott Fitzgerald : Tender is the night
- Pounding print
- Richard Ford : Independence day
- James Salter : The hunters and Light years
- Denis Johnson : Tree of smoke
- Ian McEwan : Atonement
- Lorrie Moore : A gate at the stairs
- Don DeLillo : Point omega
- The Goncourt journals
- Rebecca West : Black lamb and grey falcon
- John Cheever : The journals
- Ryszard Japuściński's African life
- W.G. Sebald, Bombing, and Thomas Bernhard
- Regarding the achievement of others : Susan Sontag
- The moral art of war
- Musicals. "My favorite things"
- Ramamani
- Def Leppard and the anthropology of supermodernity
- Editions of contemporary me
- Is jazz dead?
- Cherry Street
- Variables. Blues for Vincent
- Loving and admiring : Camus' Algeria
- Oradour-sur-Glane
- Parting shots
- The wrong stuff
- Fabulous clothes
- The 2004 Olympics
- Sex and hotels
- What will survive of us
- Personals. The airfix generation
- Comics in a man's life
- Violets of pride
- On being an only child
- Sacked
- On the roof
- Unpacking my library
- Reader's block
- My life as a gate-crasher
- Something didn't happen
- Otherwise known as the human condition (with particular reference to Doughtnut Plant doughnuts)
- Of course.