Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, and Folk Photography. He has translated Félix Fénéon’s Novels in Three Lines and written the introduction to George Simenon’s The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (both available as NYRB Classics). He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.
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He Knew Manet
April 4, 2013
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In Baudelaire’s Dream Brothel
March 21, 2013
La Folie Baudelaire
by Roberto Calasso, translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen
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The Mother Courage of Rock
February 9, 2012
Patti Smith: Camera Solo
an exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, October 21, 2011–February 19, 2012
Woolgathering
by Patti Smith
Auguries of Innocence
by Patti Smith
Just Kids
by Patti Smith
Patti Smith 1969–1976
photographs by Judy Linn, with an afterword by Patti Smith
Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever
by Will Hermes
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In Search of Lost Paris
December 23, 2010
The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps
by Eric Hazan, translated from the French by David Fernbach
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris
by Graham Robb
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The Hidden Master of the Human Comedy
October 25, 2007
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Inside the Time Machine
January 11, 2007
Against the Day
by Thomas Pynchon
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The Heroic Nerd
October 19, 2006
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
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Barbara Epstein (1928–2006)
August 10, 2006
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William James and the Spiritualists
April 6, 2006
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Summoning the Spirits
February 23, 2006
The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult
Catalog of the exhibitionby Clément Chéroux, Andreas Fischer, Pierre Apraxine, Denis Canguilhem, and Sophie Schmit
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‘I Is Someone Else’
March 10, 2005
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
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Sander’s Human Comedy
September 23, 2004
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
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Disco Dreams
May 13, 2004
Songbook
by Nick Hornby
Sonata for Jukebox: Pop Music, Memory, and the Imagined Life
by Geoffrey O'Brien
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My Lost City
November 6, 2003
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One Nation Under a Groove
July 17, 2003
Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music
by Arthur Kempton
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Mean Streets
December 20, 2001
The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
by Herbert Asbury, with a foreword by Jorge Luis Borges
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The Henry James of Crime
September 21, 2000
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Her Story
June 15, 2000
Blonde
by Joyce Carol Oates
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On ‘The Big Con’
June 24, 1999
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The Eye of Walker Evans
October 22, 1998
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
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What Happened in Hudson County?
June 11, 1998
Freedomland
by Richard Price
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Thimble Theater
January 15, 1998
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Résumé
November 20, 1997
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Between Hell and History
November 6, 1997
Underworld by Don DeLillo
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American Photography’s Golden Age
April 4, 1996
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, 18821966 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
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The Unexamined Life
November 16, 1995
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
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Low Lifes
May 11, 1995
American Tabloid by James Ellroy
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The Genius of Blues
August 11, 1994
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
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The Cabinet of Dr. Sartorius
June 23, 1994
The Waterworks by E.L. Doctorow
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American Pie
January 28, 1993
Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success by Joseph McBride
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The Possessed
July 16, 1992
Crackhouse: Notes from the End of the Line by Terry Williams
Clockers by Richard Price
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An American Abroad
January 16, 1992
If He Hollers Let Him Go
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
The Quality of Hurt: The Early Years
My Life of Absurdity: The Later Years
The Collected Stories of Chester Himes
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On the Bum
April 27, 1989
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
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‘The Lives of John Lennon’
March 2, 1989
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Beatlephobia
December 22, 1988
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
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All Conquers Love
August 13, 1987
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
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Jean Valjean, Superstar
May 7, 1987
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, direct
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Goodbye Charlie
December 19, 1985
Chaplin: His Life and Art
by David Robinson
Charlie Chaplin by Maurice Bessy
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The Gentrification of Crime
March 28, 1985
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 Green Eagle Score
The Black Ice Score
The Sour Lemon Score
Deadly Edge
Slayground (to be published in August)
Plunder Squad
Butcher’s Moon
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Scientist of the Fantastic
January 31, 1985
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 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 d'Afrique by Kenneth Koch
Raymond Roussel
by Rayner Heppenstall
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The Invisible Man
May 10, 1984
The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs
Naked Lunch: The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition by William S. Burroughs
Letters to Allen Ginsberg, 19531957 by William S. Burroughs
Burroughs a film directed by Howard Brookner
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Satan Comes to Eden
March 15, 1984
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Trouble in Paradise
February 2, 1984
The Galapagos Affair by John Treherne
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Was Cain Able?
February 3, 1983
Cain by Roy Hoopes
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Relic
December 17, 1981
Elvis
by Albert Goldman
Private Elvis
photographs by Rudolf Paulini, edited by Diego Cortez
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Disappearing Ink
November 1, 2010
I left the New Museum’s “The Last Newspaper”—a show that sets out to explore the relation between newspapers and art at the end of the print era—with my fingers black from printer’s ink, just as they used to be years ago when I read the Times every morning on the subway.