The Beastly Beatitudes of Donald B.

James Wolcott on Donald Barthelme

The Fabulous Schiaffino Boys

Roberto Bolaño, from Nazi Literature in the Americas

One More Round

Eric Banks on Patrick Hamilton

The Ten-Cent Plague

David Hajdu on The Comic-Book Scare

Bookforum talks with Jerome Charyn

Paranoid Park, the film; the Bookforum literary calendar

Adriana V. López on Edith Grossman

Hazel Rowley on Paris’s Village Voice

Alexander Waugh on Kingsley Amis

Melanie Rehak on Jennifer 8. Lee’s The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

Jyoti Thottam on Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age

Nicole Rudick on Ceridwen Dovey’s Blood Kin

Laura Stokes on Yoko Ogawa’s The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

Joseph Donahue on Jay Wright’s The Guide Signs: Book One and Book Two

Jen Bervin on Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s Nettles

Christine Smallwood on Tony D’Souza’s The Konkans

Polly Shulman on Samantha Hunt’s The Invention of Everything Else

Benjamin Strong on Charles Bock’s Beautiful Children

Emily Chenoweth on Eli Gottlieb’s Now You See Him

Drake Stutesman on Elias Khoury’s Yalo

Gerald Early on Randall Kennedy’s Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal

Peter Terzian on William Maxwell’s Early Novels and Stories

Jed Rasula on Darren Wershler-Henry and Lori Emerson’s The Alphabet Game: A bpNichol Reader

James Surowiecki on Ha-Joon Chang’s Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Sven Birkerts on Knut Hamsun’s Hunger and Growth of the Soil

Richard Locke on Pat Barker’s Life Class

Sarah Kerr on Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto

James Gibbons on Susan Choi’s A Person of Interest

Steven G. Kellman on A. L. Kennedy’s Day

Mark Ovenden’s Transit Maps of the World

Karola Grässlin, Fabrice Hergott, and Alexander van Grevenstein’s André Cadere: Peinture sans fin

Attila Csampai’s Callas: Images of a Legend

Brian Sholis on Eric G. Wilson’s Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy

Nicholas von Hoffman on Hugh Wilford’s The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America

Matthew Price on Richard M. Cook’s Alfred Kazin: A Biography

Donald Weber on Philip Davis’s Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life

Darius Himes on Max Kozloff’s The Theatre of the Face: Portrait Photography Since 1900

Nathan Heller on Alice Becker-Ho and Guy Debord’s A Game of War

Nick Tosches on George Steiner’s My Unwritten Books

Andy Battaglia on Carl Wilson’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste

Kim Todd on Jonathan Rosen’s The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature

Jason Weiss on Julio Cortázar and Carol Dunlop’s Autonauts of the Cosmoroute: A Timeless Voyage from Paris to Marseille

Woodrow Phoenix on Yuichi Yokoyama’s New Engineering

Joscelyn Jurich on Joseph Horowitz’s Artists in Exile: How Refugees from Twentieth-Century War and Revolution Transformed the American Performing Arts

Ronna Johnson on Bonnie Bremser’s Troia: Mexican Memoirs

Albert Mobilio on the Great Bear pamphlet collection

Vanessa Place on Liz Kotz’s Words to Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art

Jessa Crispin on Julie Doucet’s 365 Days: A Diary

Geeta Dayal on Eric Weisbard’s Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music