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The spring issue of Bookforum is online now, with pieces by Christine Smallwood,
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"The story of ordinary women, defying the law to take control of their own lives, shows both the desperation and danger of the pre-Roe reality, and the possibilities for solidarity and subversion in a post-Roe landscape."
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The latest issue of Bookforum is out now! With essays by
@my19thcentury
, Audrey Wollen,
@NifMuhammad
,
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,
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, Michael W. Clune,
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,
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, and so much more.
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The fall issue of Bookforum is online now!
Read
@frankophilia
on Franzen,
@CharoShane
on Maggie Nelson,
@my19thcentury
on Joy Williams,
@xlorentzen
on Percival Everett,
@omweekes
on
@colsonwhitehead
,
@hujane
on Anthony Veasna So, and so much more.
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New issue preview: Ann Manov on Lauren Oyler, Christine Smallwood on Constance Debré, Gene Seymour on
@NifMuhammad
,
@lisa_borst
on Nicholson Baker, and
@MoiraDonegan
on tradwives
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The Lauren Oyler takedown in Bookforum still has me reeling. There's panning a book, and then there's taking the time to figure out that the author exclusively used first results on google for their research lol. The Mortal Kombat of book reviews
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"The generation of young girls who were shown Chastain and the rest of 'the ’99ers' as symbols of what their lives could be are now grown women, facing down a world that does not live up to that promise."
@MoiraDonegan
on pop feminism and women's soccer:
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“In a country that took women seriously as moral actors, or a country that viewed the struggle against sexism as a struggle for the freedom of the human spirit, there would be statues of the Jane women in every town square.”
@MoiraDonegan
on The Janes:
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Our Apr/May issue is online now and entirely unpaywalled! Read Joy Williams on Robert Stone,
@my19thcentury
on Lorrie Moore, reviews by
@mollyhfischer
,
@alexanderchee
,
@PatBlanchfield
,
@lindsayzoladz
, and many others here:
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Online now,
@xlorentzen
,
@hujane
,
@kmahaj
, and
@mervatim
discuss literary labor and autofiction, the difference between careerism and professionalism, the "average American sentence," and more:
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"This is a common sleight of hand in anti-feminist feminism, deployed like a party trick: dependence, it turns out, is the ultimate freedom."
@MoiraDonegan
reviews Lisa Selin Davis's confused history of homemakers:
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Our spring issue is now online!
Read
@GabbyBellot
on Octavia E. Butler,
@xlorentzen
on Philip Roth, Vivian Gornick interviewed by
@EmilyGould
, reviews by
@hamrahrama
,
@negarazimi
,
@Jo_Livingstone
,
@JenLouiseWilson
,
@hujane
,
@alexnpress
, and more.
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The head of the
@nationalbook
foundation,
@likaluca
, is joining
@penguinrandom
as SVP and publisher of Pantheon and Schocken Books; at
@NiemanLab
,
@deadlinedd
talks to
@Waldens_Block
, the editor-in-chief of
@TheTRiiBE
.
More stories in Paper Trail:
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Bookforum's spring issue is here!
@hamrahrama
on Billy Wilder,
@zombiesfj
on Lucy Sante,
@__seab
on Margo Jefferson,
@JenLouiseWilson
on Gramsci,
@GeneSeymour
on Zora Neale Hurston,
@lissyhard
on Sheila Heti,
@MarlonJames5
interviewed by
@3LVVIA
, & more:
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Tolerance of violent racism is not "just another form of tolerance," writes
@chick_in_kiev
, but a "capitulation to the far right's own view of their legitimacy."
New online, an excerpt from Talia Lavin's CULTURE WARLORDS (
@HachetteBooks
):
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The Sept/Oct/Nov issue of Bookforum is online now.
Read Hannah Black on Claudia Rankine,
@xlorentzen
on Hari Kunzru, Max Read on Twitter,
@frankophilia
on Pankaj Mishra, and contributions from
@JamesHannaham
,
@Rumaan
,
@GabbyBellot
, and many more.
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Have you heard? We’re no longer in the past tense. Bookforum lives, and you can get a full year's subscription for only $30:
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The Dec/Jan/Feb issue of Bookforum is now online.
Read
@JeffSharlet
on hate,
@nanpansky
on Trump's demented truths,
@Deardarkness
interviewed by
@AmberRoseSpeaks
, contributions from
@lsjamison
,
@simplylovia
,
@livingcurrency
,
@hujane
, and many more.
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Bookforum's summer issue, our first published with the support of
@thenation
, starts shipping out to subscribers this week!
If you haven't yet subscribed, there's no better time to do so:
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A critic who prefers the term “enthusiast,” an essayist who worries she’s really a poet:
@durgapolashi
w/
@snpsnpsnp
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Gary Indiana on Renata Adler
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For the new issue of Bookforum,
@Harmony_Holiday
reads
@hystericalblkns
's ORDINARY NOTES (
@fsgbooks
):
"We witness with her how a certain degree of near reverence for trauma and catastrophe makes their continued cycle inevitable."
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"When you read Baldwin, there’s a demand to ask yourself hard questions, to take rude positions with regards to your past."
Fall 2020—
@esglaude
, author of BEGIN AGAIN, discusses James Baldwin's life and work in an interview with David O’Neill:
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Mary Gaitskill on Gillian Flynn's GONE GIRL
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Our Summer issue—the Heaven & Hell issue—is out now and free to read online.
Visions of the wretched and the divine from
@3LVVIA
,
@johannafateman
,
@my19thcentury
,
@laurenoyler
,
@negarazimi
,
@EileenMyles
,
@danielleamir
,
@MoiraDonegan
, and many others:
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Digging into Trump’s Moscow ties: Who’s the illegitimate president now, Mr. Birtherism?
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Congrats to
@BenjaminFMoser
, awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Biography for SONTAG (
@eccobooks
)!
"I think one of the reasons Sontag is a fascinating figure is that we are in a time where we need to learn how to think more than we need to learn how to know."
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Ed Park on the Chicago Manual of Style
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“Every page reads like a corrective to what’s still too often left unstated about the fantasy genre: If literary fiction is quite white, fantasy is even whiter still,” writes
@victorlavalle
on
@MarlonJames5
’s “Black Leopard, Red Wolf.”
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"Gian was the rarest flower. My whole life I wanted a nickname. Gian called me 'lil camper.'"
Writers Nico Walker and
@Brad___phillips
offer remembrances of Giancarlo DiTrapano, editor and friend:
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The winter issue of Bookforum is online now!
Read
@MelissEAnderson
on Patricia Highsmith,
@kunktation
on Mark McGurl,
@feeltheheath
on Billy Porter,
@negarazimi
on Natalia Ginzburg,
@amitavakumar
interviewed by
@alexanderchee
, and so much more:
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The best books of 2017, picked by
@yoloethics
@PKhakpour
@sheilaheti
@my19thcentury
@EmilyGould
@embot
and more!
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"If liberals want to avoid their own brand of feckless indifference, they will have to fall out of love with the grand abstraction of the law."
New online from our forthcoming issue,
@nanpansky
reads Jeffrey Toobin's TRUE CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS:
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Our summer issue is out now! In a special section, Bookforum asked contributors to consider sports from every angle: the personal and the political, yes, but also the poetic, the mythic, the cathartic, and the strange.
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Thank you! It's good to be back
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Online early from Bookforum's fall issue! Read
@hujane
on Sigrid Nunez, her new novel THE VULNERABLES (
@riverheadbooks
), and how her writing quietly breaks the rules.
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Announcing an upcoming video series from
@Artforum
and Bookforum:
“Artists On Writers / Writers On Artists” will put artists and writers together so they can have the conversation they themselves want to have. Up first, artist Dev Hynes speaks with writer
@NifMuhammad
.
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Rachel Kushner on Clarice Lispector
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"Walia's analysis renders it impossible for a reader to detach the operations of capitalism from the structures of nationalism."
@natashalennard
on
@HarshaWalia
's BORDER AND RULE (
@haymarketbooks
), reviewed in our Fall 2021 issue:
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Poverty in America, the world’s richest nation: There’s a third-world America that no one notices
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Paper Trail:
@chick_in_kiev
has started a newsletter about the Far Right, anti-vaxxers, and sandwiches; congratulations to the 2021 finalists for the
@nationalbook
Awards; at
@BuzzFeedNews
,
@Scaachi
discusses Alt-Lit writer Marie Calloway's relevance today.
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Joan Didion has died at age eighty-seven.
We're revisiting Gary Indiana's 2011 essay on BLUE NIGHTS and Sarah Nicole Prickett's 2017 piece on SOUTH AND WEST:
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Online now!
@Harmony_Holiday
on Hilton Als's love letter to Prince, Becca Rothfeld on Colette, a talk with George Saunders, the best books of 2022, reviews by
@xlorentzen
,
@omweekes
,
@lisa_borst
,
@xtinesmallwood
,
@SophieHaigney
,
@theprophetpizza
& more.
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The fall issue is online now!
Read
@meghanor
on
@glossitis
,
@MoiraDonegan
on The Janes,
@CharlieTyson1
on Darryl Pinckney, Lucy Sante on Emmanuel Carrère, an interview with
@namwalien
, reviews by
@bealoayza
,
@sashafrerejones
,
@hujane
,
@CharoShane
& more.
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BOOKFORUM PARTY on May 3! Big thanks to our friends at
@nplusonemag
for hosting. Free to attend, RSVP required:
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Preview Bookforum's winter issue with a roundup of the best books of 2021!
We asked
@lsjamison
,
@rodriquese
,
@3LVVIA
, Asali Solomon, Audrey Wollen, Frank Guan,
@JenLouiseWilson
,
@laurenoyler
, Ed Park,
@natashalennard
, and others to pick their favorites:
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The Summer issue is online now, featuring a special section, "Truth or Dare"!
Our contributors consider art and literature that take productive—or just entertaining—risks, and weigh in on irony, authenticity, the state of contemporary fiction, and more:
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What comes after careerism? Next week, join
@xlorentzen
,
@hujane
,
@mervatim
,
@kmahaj
, and Bookforum editor in chief Michael Miller for a conversation on survival and style in American letters.
Mark your calendars for Thursday April 1 and RSVP here:
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"To show how border regimes function is to reveal that there is no good argument for them."
Read
@natashalennard
on
@HarshaWalia
's BORDER AND RULE (
@haymarketbooks
) in our new issue:
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Today in Paper Trail: former
@nplusonemag
coeditor
@NikilSaval
has been elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate,
@Jon_Allsop
surveys coverage of election night, revisiting
@elihday
's
@newrepublic
article on Michigan's radical Black tradition, and more.
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"In its examination of the narratives Americans used in portraying Palestinianism and Zionism, 'Covering Islam' was, much like 'Orientalism,' a practical demonstration of the political force of literary theory."
@hujane
on Edward Said's life and work:
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"The generation of young girls who were shown Chastain and the rest of 'the ’99ers' as symbols of what their lives could be are now grown women, facing down a world that does not live up to that promise."
@MoiraDonegan
on pop feminism and women's soccer:
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"I’m a big believer in the making of meaningless artifacts for no one."
@CampMarmalade
discusses Michel Leiris, the joys of weighted piano keys, and his essay collection FIGURE IT OUT (
@softskull
) with
@zombiesfj
:
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In BORDER AND RULE (
@haymarketbooks
),
@HarshaWalia
"rightfully insists that to talk ethically and honestly about borders is to talk about an ordering regime situated in and perpetuating global systems of racial capitalism and colonialism." —
@natashalennard
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"To paraphrase Bertolt Brecht, what is the crime of blowing up a pipeline compared with the crime of operating one?"
@alienvsrobbins
on Andreas Malm's argument for fighting climate change with sabotage (
@VersoBooks
):
Search and Destroy
How to take action against the climate crisis – Michael Robbins
www.bookforum.com
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In Paper Trail today:
@kathleen_belew
on THE TURNER DIARIES, a novel about a coup by white-power mob; Trump has been banned from Facebook indefinitely; at
@thenation
,
@ElieNYC
writes that the US is a failed state that has always excused white violence.
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Congrats to Anne Boyer, winner of a Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction for THE UNDYING (
@fsgbooks
)!
Sarah Resnick reviewed the book in our Fall 2019 issue:
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"All her aperçus and anecdotes are held together by a mood, a tone, the persona she deftly carved out for herself: a muse who is amusing."
@yoloethics
on Eve Babitz:
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Our writers chose the best books of 2018:
w/ picks by Maggie Nelson,
@CharoShane
,
@sylvia__north
,
@TobiHaslett
,
@frankophilia
,
@adellewaldman
, and many more!
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"Is Cormac McCarthy our most minor major novelist or is he our most major minor novelist?"
The first preview from Bookforum's winter issue is online now! Read
@my19thcentury
on Cormac McCarthy's THE PASSENGER and STELLA MARIS:
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In BORDER AND RULE (
@haymarketbooks
),
@HarshaWalia
"rightfully insists that to talk ethically and honestly about borders is to talk about an ordering regime situated in and perpetuating global systems of racial capitalism and colonialism." —
@natashalennard
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“White,” like much of Bret Easton Ellis’s work, aims to offend. To
@theorygurl
, the author’s provocations seem rooted in neediness—a fear that no one is paying attention.
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"Capitalism was 'racial' not because of some conspiracy to divide workers or to justify slavery and dispossession but because racialism had already permeated Western feudal society."
From Robin D. G. Kelley's new foreword to BLACK MARXISM (
@UNC_Press
):
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ICYMI, this panel was recorded, and the video is online now!
@xlorentzen
,
@hujane
,
@kmahaj
, and
@mervatim
discuss literary labor and autofiction, the difference between careerism and professionalism, the "average American sentence," and more:
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"Let’s get to the point: cops aren’t workers. They are agents of repression, uniformed strikebreakers, what George Orwell called the 'natural enemy' of the working class."
Geo Maher discusses A WORLD WITHOUT POLICE (
@VersoBooks
) with
@natashalennard
:
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"It is a stunning image of transition as self-negation—tragic, abject, Herculean, female."
@johannafateman
reviews
@theorygurl
's FEMALES (
@VersoBooks
), in our new issue. You can read it online now:
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Vivian Gornick on James Salter
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In our new issue,
@snpsnpsnp
on Joan Didion,
@olssonic
on Grace Paley's politics,
@carlzoilus
on Prince, and more @
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PAPER TRAIL: at
@nybooks
, read
@namwalien
on how Toni Morrison can teach us how to remember her; filmmaker
@missannabiller
discusses her debut novel at
@ScreenSlate
; a new
@vauhinivara
story in
@BOMBmagazine
; former Motherboard staff launch
@404mediaco
.
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“.
@KieseLaymon
's memoir ‘Heavy’ is post-traumatic and tense, fraught," writes Brian Blanchfield in our December/January issue. "And the freight is American. The heaviest we have.”
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"This is surely the first account of William Faulkner’s work that provides a systematic reading of Confederate historiography—the version that Faulkner would have imbibed growing up."
@leorobsonwriter
on Michael Gorra's Faulkner biography (
@LiverightPub
):
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“To be an other is to be inconvenient; being with others is too. Berlant treats inconvenience as a grain of sand that has slipped past our mantle and that we cannot eject.”
@HZeavin
reads Lauren Berlant’s ON THE INCONVENIENCE OF OTHER PEOPLE (
@DukePress
):
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"Writing a novel takes a long time, and as that time passed, I couldn’t sustain my sense of tragedy. All my complaints started to strike me as funny."
Online now,
@sklimnagem
,
@torreypeters
, Brontez Purnell, and
@melissabroder
discuss comedy in their work:
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"'What do rape victims want?' is the question that motivates Herman's project, but the answer seems to undermine that project itself: They want a world where they do not need to be asked."
@MoiraDonegan
on Judith Herman's TRUTH AND REPAIR (
@BasicBooks
):
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"In the early days of ACT UP, its most vital role was as a hub for information about potential treatments. People joined because they wanted to stay alive."
@MoiraDonegan
reviews
@sarahschulman3
’s LET THE RECORD SHOW (
@fsgbooks
) in our new issue:
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