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Bookforum editors

Come as You Are

Remembering Joe Brainard in letters to friends, lovers, and fans
Andrew Chan

May Days

A new biography of an elusive comic talent
Lizzy Harding

Nowhere Fast

Antonio di Benedetto’s “Trilogy of Expectation”
Becca Rothfeld

A History of Violence

On Gisèle Pelicot, Virginie Despentes, and post-#MeToo narratives
Jamie Hood
Paper Trail
Erik Baker on how work became self-help; Sarah McNally’s bookselling empire
Bookforum editors
Culture
Reader, I Divorced Him
Hermione Hoby
Culture
The Lines, They Are A-Changin’
Justin Taylor
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Fiction
Thal Tales
Ryan Ruby
Fiction
Trolling Alone
Christian Lorentzen
Fiction
A Roon with a View
Brandon Taylor