COLUMNS

INVENTORY/MY ROCK IS A PURSE
SUSAN GREENSPAN
Geological fallacies

INGESTION / THE X FACTOR
D. GRAHAM BURNETT
Professor Pettenkofer's miasmatic gamble

COLORS/PORPHYRY
CATHERINE HANSEN
Blood from a stone

LEFTOVERS/DINNER WITH KANT
CHRISTOPHER TURNER
The taste of disgust

MAIN

HEAD TRIPS
JORDAN BEAR & ALBERT NARATH
The social inversions of the comic foreground

ARTIST PROJECT: THE GREY UNKNOWN
JUSTIN STORMS

THE GOTHENBURG LEVIATHAN
CECILIA GRONBERG & JONAS J. MAGNUSSON
Into the belly of the Malm Whale

RAIN AND RAINFALL-GREAT BRITAIN-
PERIODICITY—PERIODICALS
EDWARD EIGEN
The quest for a “perfect patterne"

A CASE OF EROTIC ENGINEERING
THOMAS A. P. VAN LEEUWEN
Looking for Gustave Eiffel in the lingerie department

LET'S MAKE A DEAL
HERANT KATCHADOURIAN
The protocols of haggling

DECEPTION

THE CRUCIAL MOMENT OF DECEPTION
HANNA ROSE SHELL
Abbott Handerson Thayer's law of protective coloration

MARK OF INTEGRITY
JONATHAN ALLEN
A brief history of card tricks

THE GOLDEN LASSO
KEN ALDER
Wonder Woman and the birth of the lie detector

DECEPTION AS A WAY OF KNOWING: A
CONVERSATION WITH ANTHONY GRAFTON
D. GRAHAM BURNETT
The cops and robbers of history

ARTIST PROJECT: MEANWHILE IN NIGERIA...
JULIETA ARANDA

BROTHERLY DECEPTION
JEFFREY CROTEAU
The Album of Masonic Impostors

SLETTEMARK / NIXON
MATS BIGERT
I'm not a crook. I'm an artist

THE FALL AND RISE OF ERNEST LALOR MALLEY
CHRISTINE WERTHEIM
The poet who wasn't

ARTIST PROJECT: ALL WORK AND NO PLAY
ADAM BROOMBERG & OLIVER CHANARIN

THE PERFECT CRIME
BRIAN DILLON
An open letter to the editors of frieze magazine

IN THE ORCHARDS OF NOSTALGIA
GEORGE MAKARI
Hiding in plain sight

AND

POSTCARD / SCHOOL OF CROCK
James Hogue’s Ivy League con

BOOKMARK / BOOK MARK
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