Sketch

MAPS

The Dustbin of History in a World Made Fresh

History Lesson

The Mask of Dimitrios

Myth and Misquotation

TERRITORIES A Single Revelation
On Peter Handke's Short Letter, Long Farewell

Götterdämmerung after Twenty-OneYears
On Nazi-Hunting ThriIers

You Could Catch It
On Guy Debord's Panegyric

Dylan as Historian
On "Blind Willie McTell"

Happy Endings
On E. L. Doctrow's Ragtime and Robert Altman's Nashville

Cowboys and Germans
On Wim Wenders's Emotion Pictures

Cowboy Boots and Germans
On A Susan Sontag Reader

The Bob McFadden Experience
On The Beat Generation CD Box Set

Thc Expanding Vacant Spot
On Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson's And Their Children after Them

Jan and Dean as Purloined Letter
On Dead Man's Curve: The Story of Jan and Dean

Dead Man's Curve
On American Hot Wax

When You Walk in the Room
On Robert Johnson

Cretins, Fools, Morons, and Lunatics
On Umbcrto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum

Old-Time Religion
On Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae

A Change in the Weathcr
On The Book of J

Lost and Found
On the Exhibition Ice Age Art

Escape from New York
On Herschel Chipp's Picasso's "Guernica"

A Dream of the Cold War
On The Manchurian Candidate

John Wayne listening

Germany in a Second Language
On Peter Schneider's The Wall Jumper

SETTLEMENTS

The Deborah Chessler Story

Think We Might Get Some Rain?

Sources

Acknowledgments

Credits Index