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.