Pièces de Résistance

KAREN OLSSON ON READING GRACE PALEY DURING A POLITICAL CRISIS

The American Experiment

SARAH NICOLE PRICKETT ON JOAN DIDION’S ROAD-TRIP NOTEBOOKS

Fear and Loathing

SEAN GUILLORY ON RUSSIA AND THE WEST

BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on this season’s notable art books

MELANIE REHAK on Jim Harrison’s food writing

TOM CARSON on renegade Republican congressman Trey Radel

CARL WILSON on the pleasure principles of Prince

KAITLIN PHILLIPS on Cat Marnell’s memoir of fashion and addiction

BECCA ROTHFELD: Raduan Nassar’s Ancient Tillage and A Cup of Rage

ERIC BANKS: Dan Chaon’s Ill Will

SCOTT INDRISEK: Deb Olin Unferth’s Wait Till You See Me Dance

GENE SEYMOUR: Hari Kunzru’s White Tears

PRUDENCE PEIFFER: Lynne Tillman’s The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories

LIDIJA HAAS: Elif Batuman’s The Idiot

ANN FRIEDMAN: Ariel Levy’s The Rules Do Not Apply

ALBERT MOBILIO: The Drawings of Susan Te Kahurangi King

MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE: Kate Zambreno’s Book of Mutter and O Fallen Angel

ALBERT MOBILIO: Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel’s Evidence

BEN KAFKA: Suzanne O’Sullivan’s Is It All in Your Head? True Stories of Imaginary Illness

KAELEN WILSON-GOLDIE: miriam cooke’s Dancing in Damascus: Creativity, Resilience, and the Syrian Revolution

LYDIA PEROVIĆ: Anne Garréta’s Not One Day

TOBI HASLETT: Norman Podhoretz’s Making It

JO LIVINGSTONE: Sarah Schulman’s Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair

DAVID O’NEILL: Mark Peterson’s Political Theatre

SASHA FRERE-JONES: Mary Gaitskill’s Somebody with a Little Hammer

JULIAN ROSE: Wendy Lesser’s You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn

MICHAEL ROBBINS: Stuart Hall’s Selected Political Writings: The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays and Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History

THOMAS CHATTERTON WILLIAMS: Chris Hayes’s A Colony in a Nation

ROBERT S. BOYNTON: Carter J. Eckert’s Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866–1945

ALEX ABRAMOVICH: David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

CHARLOTTE SHANE: Laura Kipnis’s Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus