Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Visual
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 Khan
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 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 Kapuściński’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’s 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 Doughnut Plant doughnuts)
Of Course
Sources and Acknowledgments