Tell Me Everything

CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN ON FICTION IN THE AGE OF RADICAL TRANSPARENCY

Eyes Wide Shut

CHARLOTTE SHANE ON POWER, SHAMELESSNESS, AND SEX IN WASHINGTON, DC

Only Disconnect

NAUSICAA RENNER ON RUSSIAGATE’S BANAL SPRAWL

Yard Sale

JESSE BARRON ON THE SECRET COST OF COLLEGE

Advice and Consent

SHEILA HETI on Peter D. Kramer’s Should You Leave?

Are You My Father?

MINNA ZALLMAN PROCTOR on Dani Shapiro’s Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

To Have and Withhold

COLM TÓIBÍN on Henry James

Friendly Fire

GREG AFINOGENOV on The Americans

A Family Affair

SEAN HOWE on Tom O’Neill’s Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Suspicious Minds

JANE HU on Wilkie Collins

Benign Lives

ALICE GREGORY on Shirley Hazzard

File Under . . .

SASHA FRERE-JONES on Robert A. Caro’s Working: Researching, Interviewing,Writing

That Obscure Object of Desire

MICHELLE ORANGE on Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women

Print the Legend

NAMARA SMITH on recent movies about journalists

Spy Maintenance

ANDREW MEIER on W. Somerset Maugham

Anarchy in the UK

SIDDHARTHA DEB on Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent

The Infant Condition

ANNE BOYER on infants in fiction

True Lies

ARI M. BROSTOFF on J. T. LeRoy

Under the Skin

SAM HUBER on Walt Odets’s Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives

The Importance of Being Honest

CLANCY MARTIN on Adrienne Rich

RACHEL MONROE on true crime as self-help

BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on this season’s outstanding art books

RACHEL SYME on Gloria Swanson

MARIA DIMITROVA: Elvia Wilk’s Oval

KAITLIN PHILLIPS: Lauren Mechling’s How Could She

BECCA ROTHFELD: Gregor von Rezzori’s Abel and Cain

LESLIE JAMISON: Miriam Toews’s Women Talking

JENNIFER KRASINSKI: Camp: Notes on Fashion

SARAH NICOLE PRICKETT: Janet Malcolm’s Nobody’s Looking at You

HOWARD HAMPTON: Andrey Tarkovsky, Life and Work: Film by Film, Stills, Polaroids & Writings

KAREN OLSSON: Daniel J. Kennefick’s No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and Ron Cowen’s Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes

JULIAN ROSE: Why Art Museums? The Unfinished Work of Alexander Dorner

MICHAEL ROBBINS: This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom by Martin Hägglund

ALBERT MOBILIO: Matthew L. Tompkins’s The Spectacle of Illusion: Deception, Magic and the Paranormal

CARINA DEL VALLE SCHORSKE: Native Country of the Heart by Cherríe Moraga

LAUREN O’NEILL-BUTLER: Linda Hirshman’s Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment

SARAH JAFFE: Aaron Bastani’s Fully Automated Luxury Communism

LUCY SANTE: Svetlana Alexievich’s Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

JAMIE MARTIN: Tom Nicholas’s VC: An American History

NEGAR AZIMI: Negar Mottahedeh’s Whisper Tapes: Kate Millett in Iran

TOM CARSON: Tony Horwitz’s Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide

J. HOBERMAN: Enzo Traverso’s The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right

ANDREW SCHENKER: The House of the Pain of Others: Chronicle of a Small Genocide by Julián Herbert