State of Affairs

CHRISTINE SMALLWOOD on John Updike’s Couples

The Riot Stuff

CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN ON NEW JOURNALISM AND THE 1968 PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTIONS

Breaking the Waves

CHARLOTTE SHANE ON INTERGENERATIONAL FEMINIST CONFLICT

In the Fascist Weight Room

ELIZABETH SCHAMBELAN ON YUKIO MISHIMA

You Say You Want an Evolution

A. S. HAMRAH ON STANLEY KUBRICK’S 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

American Carnage

NIKIL SAVAL on My Lai and the Vietnam War

Van Diagram

JESSICA HOPPER on Ryan H. Walsh’s Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968

Relive Without Dead Time

ASTRA TAYLOR on France’s May ’68 strikes

Anomie of the People

JASON E. SMITH on Leslie Kaplan’s Excess—The Factory

Easy Writer

KAITLIN PHILLIPS on Richard Brautigan’s In Watermelon Sugar

Jean-Luc Godard

TOBI HASLETT on Jean-Luc Godard

A Phantasmic Woman

ANDREA LONG CHU on Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckinridge

Lavender, Menaced

MOIRA DONEGAN on pre-Stonewall politics

Notes from Underground

FRANK GUAN on Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul on Ice

Darkness Visible

MELISSA ANDERSON on Renata Adler’s A Year in the Dark

The Empathy Exams

C. NAMWALI SERPELL on Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Lock Her Up

SARAH RESNICK on Jane Fonda

Mind the Fact

LAUREN O’NEILL-BUTLER on Hannah Arendt

The Boys on the Bus

GERALD HOWARD on Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Acid Redux

TAO LIN on Timothy Leary’s High Priest

Muhammad Ali as St. Sebastian

ROBERT LIPSYTE on Muhammad Ali as St. Sebastian

Heavy Weather

MARK RUDD on radical reading

MELANIE REHAK on Julia Child

GENE SEYMOUR on William Styron’s best seller The Confessions of Nat Turner

TOM CARSON on Dave Itzkoff’s biography of Robin Williams

BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on this season’s outstanding art books

JONATHAN LETHEM AND CHRISTOPHER SORRENTINO on Keith Hernandez’s memoir

MARK GREIF: An interview with James Wood

LIDIJA HAAS: Keith Gessen’s A Terrible Country

ERIC BANKS: Christian Kracht’s The Dead

MAX NELSON: Amitava Kumar’s Immigrant, Montana

SARAH NICOLE PRICKETT: Rachel Cusk’s Kudos

MINNA ZALLMAN PROCTOR: Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation

JULIAN ROSE: Edward Eigen’s On Accident: Episodes in Architecture and Landscape

JENNIFER KRASINSKI: Zoe Leonard: Survey

ALBERT MOBILIO: Christopher Bonanos’s Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous

JESSE BARRON: Bill C. Malone’s Country Music USA

ANDREW MEIER: Seymour M. Hersh’s Reporter

KAREN OLSSON: Eliza Griswold’s Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

MAX READ: Ken Auletta’s Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else)

CHRIS LEHMANN: Anna Clark’s The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy

PATRICK BLANCHFIELD: Priya Satia’s Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution

REBECCA LEBER: Daegan Miller’s This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent