Letters from a Young Poet

EMILY COOKE ON THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SYLVIA PLATH

Sex During Wartime

MOIRA DONEGAN REVISITS ANDREA DWORKIN’S RADICAL VISION

Gods and Monsters

VICTOR LAVALLE ON MARLON JAMES’S NEW FANTASY NOVEL

MELANIE REHAK on Nigella Lawson’s classic cookbook

JENNIFER KRASINSKI on Architectural Digest’s visual hyperbole

BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on the season’s outstanding art books

BENJAMIN KUNKEL: An interview with John Lanchester

CARL WILSON on David Bowie

JON CARAMANICA on the Beastie Boys

JAMES CAMP: Sam Lipsyte’s Hark

ELVIA WILK: Tim Maughan’s Infinite Detail

SARAH RESNICK: Anna Burns’s Milkman

CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN: David Means’s Instructions for a Funeral

GENE SEYMOUR: Darius James’s Negrophobia: An Urban Parable

CHARLOTTE SHANE: Kristen Roupenian’s You Know You Want This: “Cat Person” and Other Stories

HOWARD HAMPTON: Helen Molesworth’s One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art

NICOLE RUDICK: Saul Steinberg’s The Labyrinth

BEN KAFKA: Jeffrey Sconce’s The Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power, Insanity

A. S. HAMRAH: W. K. Stratton’s The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film

ISABEL FLOWER: Adam Pape’s Dyckman Haze

SASHA FRERE-JONES: k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004–2016)

ERIC BANKS: Andrew S. Curran’s Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely

ALBERT MOBILIO: Jason Moran

CORRINE FITZPATRICK: Etel Adnan

LAUREN OYLER: Blythe Roberson’s How to Date Men When You Hate Men

RACHEL SYME: Isaac Mizrahi’s I.M.

NAUSICAA RENNER: Candice Delmas’s A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil

KAREN OLSSON: Greg Grandin’s The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

TOM CARSON: Michael Tomasky’s If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How It Might Be Saved

AVA KOFMAN: Roger McNamee’s Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe