A Tribe of His Own

Matthew Price on Ralph Ellison

Burning Bright

Clive Fisher on Carl Van Vechten

Beauvoir, Brazil and “Christina T”

Hazel Rowley on Beauvoir, Brazil, and “Christina T”

A Second Sex

Sarah Glazer on A Second Sex

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman

Toril Moi on Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman

Transforming Alice Munro’s prose for the big screen; the Longfellow stamp; Jim Crace’s fake book; the Bookforum literary calendar

Elizabeth Schambelan on Ira Silverberg

Justin Spring Interviews Nicols Fox

Emily Warn on new poetry titles

Noah Isenberg interviews Jörg Friedrich

Paul Maliszewski on Clifford Irving’s The Hoax

Bookforum talks with A. M. Homes

Christopher R. Beha on John Crowley’s Endless Things

David L. Ulin on Jim Crace’s The Pesthouse

Peter Terzian on Nathan Englander’s The Ministry of Special Cases

Karen Karbo on Cathleen Schine’s The New Yorkers

Suzan Sherman on Maxine Swann’s Flower Children

Kathryn Lewis on Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

Christopher Sorrentino on Richard Flanagan’s The Unknown Terrorist

Gideon Lewis-Kraus on Howard Jacobson’s Kalooki Nights

Laird Hunt on Clare Clark’s The Nature of Monsters

Johnny Temple on Phil LaMarche’s American Youth

Alex Abramovich on Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives

Sarah Kerr on Thomas McNamee’s Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution

Ben Marcus on Lydia Davis’s Varieties of Disturbance

Alissa Quart on Jon Savage’s Teenage:The Creation of Youth Culture

Benjamin Anastas on Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union

Mark Rudman on Zbigniew Herbert’s The Collected Poems: 1956–1998

Marjorie Perloff on Peter Cole’s The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950 – 1492

John Lichfield on Nicolas Sarkozy’s Testimony: France in the Twenty-first Century

Richard Locke on Clive James’s Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts

David Rimanelli on Jeff Wall’s Selected Essays and Interviews

Rebecca Mead on James Attlee’s Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey

Melanie Rehak on John Stubb’s John Donne: The Reformed Soul

Paul Grimstad on Joan Richardson’s A Natural History of Pragmatism: The Fact of Feeling From Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein

Wayne Koestenbaum on Stéphane Mallarmé’s Divagations

Michael Roth on Brenda Maddox’s Freud’s Wizard: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis

Eliza Griswold on Carolin Emcke’s Echoes of Violence: Letters from a War Reporter

Tom Nawrocki on Robert P. Moncreiff’s Bart Giamatti: A Profile

Joscelyn Jurich on Christa Wolf’s One Day a Year: 1960 – 2000

Barbara Bloom on Patricia Vigderman’s The Memory Palace of Isabella Stewart Gardner

Christine Schwartz Hartley on André Schiffrin’s A Political Education: Coming of Age in Paris and New York

Karin L. Kross on Aline Kominsky Crumb’s Need More Love: A Graphic Memoir

Woodrow Phoenix on Kim Deitch’s Alias the Cat

Andrea Walker on Lauren M. E. Goodlad and Michael Bibby’s Goth: Undead Subculture and Catherine Spooner’s Contemporary Gothic