COLUMNS
Editor’s Notebook: Make-Believe, Memory Failure
Rob White
Marx and Coca-Cola: Post Festum
Joshua Clover
New York Notebook: Quasimentaries
William Johnson
Second Time Around: Vertigo
D. A. Miller
Two-Point-Zero: The Wire for Tourists?
Ben Walters
Reprogramming: Some Last Words on The Wire
Christopher Hanson
Nonfictions: Manufactured Landscapes
Nadia Bozak
ARTICLES
Gone Fishin’? Rossellini’s Stromboli, Visconti’s La terra trema
Paul Thomas
Historical Meditations in Two Films by John Gianvito
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Lebanese Cinema
David Livingston
Beyond the Choir: An Interview with David Simon
Richard Beck
Re-Wiring Baltimore: The Emotive Power of Systemics, Seriality, and the City
Marsha Kinder
The Lost Boys of Baltimore: Beauty and Desire in the Hood
James S. Williams
BOOK REVIEWS
Cover photo: Michael Kenneth Williams in the fifth season of The Wire. Photo: Nicole Rivelli. © 2008 HBO.