Parkland, One Year Later

PATRICK BLANCHFIELD ON THE POLITICS OF GUN CONTROL

It Gets Worse

KATE ARONOFF ON THE CLIMATE CATASTROPHE

Wonk Quixote

ROY SCRANTON ON NATHANIEL RICH’S CLIMATE-CHANGE FAIRY TALE

Inherent Vice

JENNIFER KRASINSKI ON THE COLORFUL GENIUS OF COUTURIER CHARLES JAMES

RACHEL SYME on the daily routines of women writers and artists

MAX READ on a new history of computer programmers

BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on the season’s outstanding art books

LAUREN OYLER on the success of Sally Rooney

ALEJANDRA OLIVA interviews Valeria Luiselli

SCOTT INDRISEK: Mark Doten’s Trump Sky Alpha

ERIC BANKS: Enrique Vila-Matas’s Mac’s Problem

SAM HUBER: Édouard Louis’s Who Killed My Father

BENJAMIN ANASTAS: Kathleen Alcott’s America Was Hard to Find

FIONA MAAZEL: Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise

ISMAIL MUHAMMAD: Bryan Washington’s Lot

CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN: Colin Asher’s Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren

ALBERT MOBILIO: David McMillan’s Growth and Decay: Pripyat and the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

SASHA FRERE-JONES: Joshua Sperling’s A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger

MELISSA ANDERSON: Lillian Ross’s Picture

MOLLY FISCHER: Megan K. Stack’s Women’s Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home

LAUREN O’NEILL-BUTLER: Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here

CHARLIE MARKBREITER: Lotte Laserstein: Face to Face

BRIAN DILLON: Intermedia, Fluxus and the Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins

CHARLOTTE SHANE: David Shields’s The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power and Lili Boisvert’s Screwed: How Women Are Set Up to Fail at Sex

ANDREA LONG CHU: Bret Easton Ellis’s White

MALCOLM HARRIS: Adam Gopnik’s A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism

FRANK GUAN: Bhaskar Sunkara’s The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality

JESS ROW: Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

RICHARD BECK: Daniel Immerwahr’s How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States