Soul Inspector

Luc Sante on Georges Simenon

Ignition Switch

Jonathan Shainin on car bombs and suicide bombing

Adapt This

Phillip Lopate on fiction into film

Reflections

Reflections by James Ivory, Elmore Leonard, Tracy Chevalier, Patrick McGrath, Jerry Stahl, Michael Tolkin, Susanna Moore, Tim Krabbe, Irvine Welsh, Barry Gifford, Alexander Payne, Myla Goldberg, and Frederic Raphael

Best Adaptations

Best adaptations by Francine Prose, Joy Press, Geoffrey O’Brien, Robert Polito, Luc Sante, Stephanie Zacharek, Steve Erickson, Molly Haskell, Armond White, J. Hoberman, Bilge Ebiri, and Drake Stutesman

Bookforum talks with Andrew O’Hagan

Translating comic books for the screen; book trailers; the Bookforum literary calendar

Eric Banks on Berlin’s Autorenbuchhandlung

Radhika Jones on Kurt Andersen

Tom Nawrocki on Fats Domino

Amy Gerstler on Miranda July’s No One Belongs Here More than You

Benjamin Strong on Richard Lange’s Dead Boys

Paul Maliszewski on Alexander Theroux’s Laura Warholic; or The Sexual Intellectual

Ed Park on Matthew Sharpe’s Jamestown

Heather Havrilesky on Jack Pendarvis’s Your Body Is Changing

Nina Mehta on Viken Berberian’s Das Kapital: A Novel of Love and Money Markets

Lenora Todaro on Elfriede Jelinek’s Greed

Stefanie Sobelle on Gabriel Josipovici’s Goldberg: Variations

Michael Pye on Willem Frederik Hermans’s Beyond Sleep

Geoff Nicholson on Jeremy Reed’s A Stranger on Earth: The Life and Work of Anna Kavan

Andrea Walker on Tessa Hadley’s The Master Bedroom

Tom Leclair on Matt Ruff’s Bad Monkeys

Mike Kelley’s Day is Done

Ann Terry and Henry Maguire’s Dynamic Splendor: The Wall Mosaics in the Cathedral of Eufrasius at Porec

Julie Ault’s Come Alive! The Sprited Art of Sister Corita

Scott McLemee on Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis, and Slavoj Zizek’s Lenin Reloaded: Toward a Politics of Truth

David Greenberg on Michael A. Lerner’s Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City

Valerie Steiker on Shocking Life: The Autobiography of Elsa Schiaparelli

Matt Madden on Rutu Modan’s Exit Wounds

Carla Blumenkranz on Anne Fadiman’s At Large and At Small

Liz Brown on Rebecca Solnit’s Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

Johannah Rodgers on Emily Cockayne’s Hubbub: Filth, Noise and Stench in England, 1600–1770

Albert Mobilio on Samuel Beckett CDs

Jesse Lichtenstein on David R. Montgomery’s Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations

Michael Roth on Jean-Luc Nancy’s Multiple Arts: The Muses II and The Ground of the Image

Nicholas von Hoffman on Kenneth D. Ackerman’s Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties and Burton Hersh’s Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-Off Between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover That Transformed America

Gerald Early on Tommie Smith and David Steele’s Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith and Gary Sheffield and David Ritz’s Inside Power

Cynthia Carr on Danny Lyon’s Like a Thief’s Dream

Clive Fisher on Martin Duberman’s The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein

Melissa Harris on Carolyn Brown’s Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham

Janine Armin on Wayne Koestenbaum’s Hotel Theory

Michael Wood on Don Delillo’s Falling Man

David Levi Strauss on Photography and suffering

Matthew Price on Ryszard Kapuscinski Travels with Herodotus

Alex Abramovich on Leonard Michaels’s The Collected Stories and Sylvia

James Surowiecki on Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Eric Banks on Marianne Wiggins’s The Shadow Catcher

Jon Raymond on Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero

Ross Benjamin on Peter Handke’s Crossing the Sierra de Gredos