Evidence of Things Not Seen

JOY WILLIAMS ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF NOVELIST ROBERT STONE

Los Angeles Is Burning

SASHA FRERE-JONES ON A NEW HISTORY OF ’60s RADICALISM ON THE WEST COAST

The Moore the Merrier

JUSTIN TAYLOR ON LORRIE MOORE’S COLLECTED STORIES

GREIL MARCUS interviews Percival Everett

BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on the season’s outstanding art books

JON CARAMANICA on Davide Sorrenti’s photographs of his ’90s New York crew

GENE SEYMOUR on James McBride’s novel of a drunk deacon

GERALD HOWARD on why Don DeLillo deserves the Nobel

CLANCY MARTIN on the frenzied hustle of the jewelry business

ALEXANDER CHEE: Robert Glück’s Margery Kempe

ANA CECILIA ALVAREZ: Fernanda Melchor’s Hurricane Season

ALBERT MOBILIO: Deb Olin Unferth’s Barn 8

HANNAH STAMLER: Sara Sligar’s Take Me Apart

CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN: Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror & the Light

RATIK ASOKAN: Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas

LINDSAY ZOLADZ: Emily Gould’s Perfect Tunes

LAUREN OYLER: Ottessa Moshfegh’s Death in Her Hands

MARK POLIZZOTTI: Starr Figura, Isabelle Cahn, and Philippe Peltier’s Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde

MEGAN MILKS: Harry Dodge’s My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing

J. HOBERMAN: Ben Katchor’s The Dairy Restaurant

JENNIFER KRASINSKI: Bernadette Mayer’s Memory

TOM CARSON: James Shapiro’s Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future

ALBERT MOBILIO: David Maisel’s Proving Ground

MOLLY FISCHER: Katie Roiphe’s The Power Notebooks

LUCY SANTE: Michael Rips’s The Golden Flea: A Story of Obsession and Collecting

PATRICK BLANCHFIELD: Frank Smyth’s The NRA: The Unauthorized History

GREG AFINOGENOV: Joshua Yaffa’s Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia

AVA KOFMAN: Joanne McNeil’s Lurking: How a Person Became a User