Of Infamous Women

SASHA FRERE-JONES ON RACHEL KUSHNER’S PRISON NOVEL

A Neutral Innocence of the Heart

DAWN LUNDY MARTIN ON BLACK LIVES IN TRUMP’S AMERICA

Power Trip

CHARLOTTE SHANE ON PSYCHEDELIC DRUGS AND THE QUEST FOR TRANSCENDENCE

JAMES CAMP on procrastination

BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on this season’s notable art books

MELANIE REHAK on Rick Bragg’s memoir and Southern cookbook

TOM CARSON on an insider’s account of the Sanders campaign

MOLLY FISCHER on Meg Wolitzer’s novel of feminist friendship

NAUSICAA RENNER: Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry

KAITLIN PHILLIPS: Sheila Heti’s Motherhood

ED PARK: Harry Mathews’s The Solitary Twin

ALEX ABRAMOVICH: Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma Stories

IDA HATTEMER-HIGGINS: Alexander Kluge’s Temple of the Scapegoat

EMILY GOULD: Alan Hollinghurst’s The Sparsholt Affair

BRIAN DILLON: Lynne Tillman’s Men and Apparitions

REBECCA BENGAL: Geoff Dyer’s The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand

MICHAEL WOOD: William Marx’s The Hatred of Literature

KATE SUTTON: Amy Sillman: The ALL-OVER

ISABEL FLOWER: Khalik Allah’s Souls Against the Concrete

JENNIFER KRASINSKI: Charlotte Salomon’s Life? or Theatre? and Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre? A Selection of 450 Gouaches.

CLANCY MARTIN: Leslie Jamison’s The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

SEAN GUILLORY: Alexander Etkind’s Roads Not Taken: An Intellectual Biography of William C. Bullitt and Michael McFaul’s From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia

HUSSEIN IBISH: Frederic Wehrey’s The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle for the New Libya

JESS ROW: Fred Moten’s Black and Blur, Stolen Life, and The Universal Machine

GENE SEYMOUR: Jeffrey C. Stewart’s The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

FRANK GUAN: Kathleen Belew’s Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

KEN KALFUS: Christian Davenport’s The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos

ALEX PRESS: Bernice Yeung’s In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers