Luc Sante
Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, and, most recently, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.
From the Review
October 25, 2007: The Hidden Master of the Human Comedy
January 11, 2007: Inside the Time Machine
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
October 19, 2006: The Heroic Nerd
Tales by H.P. Lovecraft, edited by Peter Straub
H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq, translated from the French by Dorna Khazeni, with an introduction by Stephen King
August 10, 2006: Barbara Epstein (1928–2006)
April 6, 2006: William James and the Spiritualists (letter)
February 23, 2006: Summoning the Spirits
The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult Catalog of the exhibitionby Clément Chéroux, Andreas Fischer, Pierre Apraxine, Denis Canguilhem, and Sophie Schmit
March 10, 2005: 'I Is Someone Else'
Chronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan
Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader edited by Benjamin Hedin
Lyrics: 1962–2001 by Bob Dylan
Tarantula by Bob Dylan
September 23, 2004: Sander's Human Comedy
August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century A Photographic Portrait of Germany
People of the Twentieth Century by August Sander, edited by Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, revised and newly compiled by Susanne Lange, Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, and Gerd Sander
May 13, 2004: Disco Dreams
Songbook by Nick Hornby
Sonata for Jukebox: Pop Music, Memory, and the Imagined Life by Geoffrey O'Brien
November 6, 2003: My Lost City
July 17, 2003: One Nation Under a Groove
Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music by Arthur Kempton
December 20, 2001: Mean Streets
The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld by Herbert Asbury, with a foreword by Jorge Luis Borges
September 21, 2000: The Henry James of Crime
June 15, 2000: Her Story
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
June 24, 1999: On 'The Big Con'
October 22, 1998: The Eye of Walker Evans
Walker Evans: New York 11, 1998 exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, July 28-October
Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection by Judith Keller
Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye by Gilles Mora, by John T. Hill
Walker Evans: A Biography by Belinda Rathbone
Walker Evans: Signs with an essay by Andrei Codrescu
The Last Years of Walker Evans by Jerry L. Thompson
Walker Evans: Havana 1933 by Gilles Mora, by John T. Hill
Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-38 Administration Collection in the Library of Congress A Catalog of Photographic Prints Available from the Farm Security
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee, by Walker Evans
Walker Evans at Work with an essay by Jerry L. Thompson
Walker Evans: American Photographs with an essay by Lincoln Kirstein
June 11, 1998: What Happened in Hudson County?
Freedomland by Richard Price
January 15, 1998: Thimble Theater
November 20, 1997: Résumé
November 6, 1997: Between Hell and History
Underworld by Don DeLillo
April 4, 1996: American Photography's Golden Age
Mathew Brady: American Art Series
Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War by Alexander Gardner
Landscapes of the Civil War: Newly Discovered Photographs from the Medford Historical Society edited by Constance Sullivan
Jacob A. Riis: Photographer and Citizen by Alexander Alland
The North American Indians by Edward Curtis
Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown by Arnold Genthe, by John K Tchen
Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer by Dorothy Norman
Alfred Stieglitz: A Biography by Richard Whelan
Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George by John Szarkowski
Gertrude Käsebier: The Photographer and Her Photographs by Barbara Michaels
Alvin Langdon Coburn: Symbolist Photographer, 1882–1966 by Mike Weaver
Women at Work: One Hundred and Fifty-Three Photographs by Lewis W Hine
Men at Work: Photographic Studies of Modern Men and Machines by Lewis W Hine
Paul Strand: An American Vision
Paul Strand (Aperture Masters of Photography Series, No. 1)
Edward Weston: Forms of Passion edited by Gilles Mora
Tina Modotti: Photographs by Sarah M Lowe
Berenice Abbott: Photographs
Berenice Abbott, Photographer: A Modern Vision
American Photographs by Walker Evans
Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye by Gilles Mora
Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection by Judith Keller
Photography Until Now by John Szarkowski
Photography and the American Scene by Robert Taft
The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present (fifth edition, 1982) by Beaumont Newhall
November 16, 1995: The Unexamined Life
Mapplethorpe edited and designed by Mark Holborn, by Dimitri Levas, essay by Arthur C. Danto
Altars by Robert Mapplethorpe, essay by Edmund White
Mapplethorpe: A Biography by Patricia Morrisroe
Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera by Jack Fritscher Ph.D.
Playing with the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe by Arthur C. Danto
May 11, 1995: Low Lifes
American Tabloid by James Ellroy
August 11, 1994: The Genius of Blues
Nothing But the Blues: The Music and the Musicians edited by Lawrence Cohn
The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax
King of the Delta Blues: The Life and Music of Charlie Patton by Stephen Calt, by Gayle Wardlow
Searching for Robert Johnson by Peter Guralnick
Love in Vain:A Vision of Robert Johnson by Alan Greenberg
June 23, 1994: The Cabinet of Dr. Sartorius
The Waterworks by E.L. Doctorow
January 28, 1993: American Pie
Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success by Joseph McBride
July 16, 1992: The Possessed
Crackhouse: Notes from the End of the Line by Terry Williams
Clockers by Richard Price
January 16, 1992: An American Abroad
If He Hollers Let Him Go
Lonely Crusade
Cast the First Stone
The Third Generation
The End of a Primitive Virgin Publishing)
Pinktoes
A Rage in Harlem
The Crazy Kill
The Real Cool Killers
Run Man Run
The Big Gold Dream
All Shot Up
The Heat's On
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Blind Man With a Pistol
The Quality of Hurt: The Early Years
My Life of Absurdity: The Later Years
The Collected Stories of Chester Himes
April 27, 1989: On the Bum
You Can't Win: The Autobiography of Jack Black foreword by William S. Burroughs
Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography as told to Dr. Ben L. Reitman, introduction by Kathy Acker, afterword by Roger A. Bruns
March 2, 1989: 'The Lives of John Lennon' (letter)
December 22, 1988: Beatlephobia
The Lives of John Lennon by Albert Goldman
John Lennon, My Brother by Julia Baird, by Geoffrey Giuliano, foreword by Paul McCartney
Imagine: John Lennon written and edited by Andrew Solt, by Sam Egan, foreword by Yoko Ono, preface by David L. Wolper
Imagine: John Lennon a film directed by Andrew Solt
Yesterday: The Unauthorized Biography of Paul McCartney by Chet Flippo
The Lennon Companion: Twenty-five Years of Comment edited by Elizabeth Thomson, edited by David Gutman
Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary by Tim Riley
August 13, 1987: All Conquers Love
Les Liaisons dangereuses a play by Christopher Hampton, from the novel by Choderlos de Laclos, directed by Howard Davies. at the Music Box Theater, New York City
Les Liaisons dangereuses by Christopher Hampton
May 7, 1987: Jean Valjean, Superstar
Les Misérables a musical by Alain Boublil, by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel by Victor Hugo, music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, original French text by Alain Boublil, by Jean-Marc Natel, additional material by James Fenton, directed and adapted by Trevor Nunn, by John Caird
December 19, 1985: Goodbye Charlie
Chaplin: His Life and Art by David Robinson
Charlie Chaplin by Maurice Bessy
March 28, 1985: The Gentrification of Crime
Four Novels: Nightfall, Down There, Dark Passage, The Moon in the Gutter by David Goodis
Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
A Hell of a Woman by Jim Thompson
The Getaway by Jim Thompson
Glitz by Elmore Leonard
The Hunter (also published as Point Blank)
The Man with the Getaway Face
The Outfit
The Mourner
The Score (to be published in August)
The Jugger
The Seventh
The Handle
The Rare Coin Score
The Green Eagle Score
The Black Ice Score
The Sour Lemon Score
Deadly Edge
Slayground (to be published in August)
Plunder Squad
Butcher's Moon
January 31, 1985: Scientist of the Fantastic
Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel, translated by Lindy Foord, by Rayner Heppenstall
Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel, translated by Rupert Copeland Cunningham
How I Wrote Certain of My Books d'Afrique by Kenneth Koch by Raymond Roussel, translated, with notes and a bibliography, by Trevor Winkfield, with two essays on Roussel by John Ashbery, a translation of Canto III of Nouvelles Impressions
Raymond Roussel by Rayner Heppenstall
May 10, 1984: The Invisible Man
The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs
Naked Lunch: The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition by William S. Burroughs
Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 1953–1957 by William S. Burroughs
Burroughs a film directed by Howard Brookner
March 15, 1984: Satan Comes to Eden (letter)
February 2, 1984: Trouble in Paradise
The Galapagos Affair by John Treherne
February 3, 1983: Was Cain Able?
Cain by Roy Hoopes
December 17, 1981: Relic
Elvis by Albert Goldman
Private Elvis photographs by Rudolf Paulini, edited by Diego Cortez
From New York Review Books
 | Novels in Three Lines Luc Sante has selected the best of anarchist and art critic Fénéon's vignettes of the darker side of life—adultery, murder, revenge, labor unrest, and suicide—in early-20th-century France. —Illustrated |
 | The Man Who Watched Trains Go By How different are the cautious routines of ordinary life from the compulsions of a killer? How reliable is even the most reliable man's identity? What finally is the truth about a person? |
 | Classic Crimes Displaying a meticulous command of evidence and unerring dramatic flair, Roughead brings to life some of the most notorious crimes and extraordinary trials of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England and Scotland. |
Books by Luc Sante
The Factory of Facts (1998)
Evidence (1992)
Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York (1991)