Paper Trail

The summer issue is out now!

Carolyn Drake, Karen (detail), 2018, archival pigment print. From the series “Knit Club.” © Carolyn Drake. Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson, New York. 

The Summer 2024 issue of Bookforum is reaching subscribers and newsstands now! In this edition: A. S. Hamrah on Emily Nussbaum’s history of reality TV, Janique Vigier on Caroline Blackwood’s bleak comic world, Gene Seymour on how the early ’90s set the stage for America’s crooked present, Charlotte Shane on Miranda July’s mischievous midlife-crisis novel, Hannah Zeavin on Adam Phillips’s ode to giving up, Moira Donegan on Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir, reviews of new novels by Percival Everett, Claire Messud, Hari Kunzru, Rachel Cusk, and much more.

Subscribe or renew your subscription today to receive the new issue and support Bookforum. All subscribers can access the digital issue in full here. Online now: A. S. Hamrah on Emily Nussbaum’s Cue the Sun!Janique Vigier on Caroline Blackwood’s The StepdaughterGene Seymour on John Ganz’s When the Clock BrokeMoira Donegan on Christine Blasey Ford’s One Way Back, and Zain Khalid on Percival Everett’s James