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June/July/Aug 2017
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COLUMNS
COLUMNS
TOM CARSON on
liberals’ sunny delusions
MELANIE REHAK on
the lives and meals of six unforgettable women
BOOKFORUM
CONTRIBUTORS on
summer’s notable art books
CHRISTINE SMALLWOOD on
erotic fiction with art-world cachet
NAOMI FRY on
the late-night hijinks of David Letterman
FICTION
COLM TÓIBÍN:
Anuk Arudpragasam
’s
The Story of a Brief Marriage
BRIAN EVENSON:
Victor LaValle
’s
The Changeling
JON DAY:
Joshua Cohen
’s
Moving Kings
AMITAVA KUMAR:
Arundhati Roy
’s
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
KAITLIN PHILLIPS:
Catherine Lacey
’s
The Answers
ARTS & LETTERS
SUZANNE HUDSON:
Alma Thomas
JOY WILLIAMS:
Mary V. Dearborn
’s
Ernest Hemingway: A Biography
MINNA ZALLMAN PROCTOR:
Edmund Gordon
’s
The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography
RACHEL MONROE:
Jeff Guinn
’s
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
ALBERT MOBILIO:
Imponderable: The Archives of Tony Oursler
ALBERT MOBILIO:
Rauschenberg / Dante: Drawing a Modern Inferno
KATE SUTTON:
Alice Neel, Uptown
PRUDENCE PEIFFER:
Laura Raicovich
’s
At the Lightning Field: An Essay
HANNAH BLACK:
Roxane Gay
’s
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
CATHERINE DAMMAN:
Susan Rosenberg
’s
Trisha Brown: Choreography as Visual Art
CURRENT AFFAIRS & POLITICS
ATOSSA ARAXIA ABRAHAMIAN:
Ann Pettifor
’s
The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers
GENE SEYMOUR:
William J. Maxwell
’s
James Baldwin: The FBI File
J. HOBERMAN:
H. G. Adler
’s
Theresienstadt 1941–1945: The Face of a Coerced Community
SUZY HANSEN:
Trita Parsi
’s
Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy
ECE TEMELKURAN:
Simon A. Waldman and Emre Caliskan
’s
The New Turkey and Its Discontents
SPECIAL SECTION
GERALD HOWARD on
Iris Owens and Olympia Press
JOHANNA FATEMAN on
Andrea Dworkin’s
Mercy
CHELSEA G. SUMMERS on
Dr. Alex Comfort’s
The Joy of Sex
CATHERINE SCOTT on
Nancy Friday’s
Men in Love
CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN
ON LUST IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
DAPHNE MERKIN on
Jenny Diski’s
Nothing Natural
MELISSA ANDERSON on
Susan Sontag’s diaries
DAVID VELASCO
ON A HAVEN OF QUEER HAPPINESS
PARUL SEHGAL on
Diane Arbus
SARAH NICOLE PRICKETT on
Alissa Nutting’s
Made for Love
ADELLE WALDMAN on
Jonathan Franzen’s
Freedom
LIDIJA HAAS on
Philippe Djian’s
Elle
CHARLOTTE SHANE on
Jill Nagle’s
Whores and Other Feminists
LARISSA PHAM on
Mary Gaitskill’s
Bad Behavior
JUSTIN TAYLOR on
Harold Brodkey