Notes on Campaign

CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN ON BEN FOUNTAIN’S DISPATCHES FROM THE 2016 ELECTIONS

Declaration of Independence

ASTRA TAYLOR ON WAYS TO RETHINK WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE

Women Beyond the Verge

LIDIJA HAAS ON REBECCA TRAISTER’S MANIFESTO OF FEMINISM AND RAGE

How the Midwest Was Lost

JON DOLAN ON WISCONSIN’S TRANSFORMATION INTO A RED STATE

White Noise

ISMAIL MUHAMMAD ON THE BATTLE OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, ONE YEAR LATER

MAX READ on the shamelessness of James Frey

TOM CARSON on how apocalyptic narratives went mainstream

MELANIE REHAK on Deborah Blum’s The Poison Squad

JUSTIN TAYLOR: An interview with Joshua Cohen

BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on this season’s notable art books

MELISSA ANDERSON on Vince Aletti’s disco dedication

MINNA ZALLMAN PROCTOR: Deborah Eisenberg‘s Your Duck Is My Duck

ADELLE WALDMAN: Lydia Kiesling’s The Golden State

JAMES CAMP: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle: Book Six

ANDREA LONG CHU: Lexi Freiman’s Inappropriation

CHARLOTTE SHANE: Amélie Nothomb’s Strike Your Heart

LAUREN OYLER: Megan Boyle’s Liveblog

KAITLIN PHILLIPS: Ling Ma’s Severance

MOLLY FISCHER: Merve Emre’s The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing

JENNIFER KRASINSKI: Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done

ALBERT MOBILIO: Katy Siegel’s Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture: 1963–2017

MAGGIE DOHERTY: Adrienne Rich’s Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry

RACHEL MONROE: Sarah Weinman’s The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World

HELENA FITZGERALD: Jessica Hopper’s Night Moves

REBECCA BENGAL: Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply

ALBERT MOBILIO: Susan Mitchell Crawley and Jennifer P. Borum’s William L. Hawkins: An Imaginative Geography

KATE SUTTON: Bob Nickas’s Vija Celmins

FRANK GUAN: Wesley Yang’s The Souls of Yellow Folk

HOWARD W. FRENCH: Jean Hatzfeld’s Blood Papa: Rwanda’s New Generation

MYCHAL DENZEL SMITH: DeRay Mckesson’s On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope

ATOSSA ARAXIA ABRAHAMIAN: Adam Tooze’s Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World and Quinn Slobodian’s Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

NAUSICAA RENNER: Jacqueline Rose’s Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty

GERALD HOWARD: Whittaker Chambers’s 1954 memoir Witness

GENE SEYMOUR: Robert Lipsyte’s SportsWorld: An American Dreamland