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Issue 33 Deception Spring 2009

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 and Albert Narath
The social inversions of the comic foreground
Artist Project / The Grey Unknown
Justin Storms
The Gothenburg Leviathan
Cecilia Grönberg and 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 and Anthony Grafton
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

Bookmark / BOOK MARK
Like we said
Postcard / School of Crock
James Hogue’s Ivy League con

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