The New Republic

Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before By Michael Fried (Yale University Press, 409 pp., $55) I. READ MORE >>

The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb (W.W. Norton, 224 pp., $24.95)  READ MORE >>

Chronic City By Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday, 432 pp., $27.95) READ MORE >>

Robert Altman: The Oral Biography By Mitchell Zuckoff (Knopf, 592 pp., $35) READ MORE >>

Arthur Miller By Christopher Bigsby (Harvard University Press, 739 pp., $35) I. READ MORE >>

Unsurprisingly, the cinematic community has come out in strong support of Roman Polanski, typically invoking--like the French culture minister before them--his status as a great artist as if it granted him some form of legal immunity. READ MORE >>

Picasso: Mosqueteros--Gagosian Gallery Younger Than Jesus--New Museum The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984--Metropolitan Museum of Art Compass in Hand--Museum of Modern Art READ MORE >>

Kazan on Directing Edited and with commentary by Robert Cornfield (Knopf, 368 pp., $32.50) READ MORE >>

Kids can get their first pre-inauguration makeover. A sensitive 24-year-old man is looking for "arm candy." READ MORE >>