Mum’s Boy

DAPHNE MERKIN ON THE HEARTWARMING SIDE OF NOTORIOUS MISANTHROPE PHILIP LARKIN

Among the Deceivers

FRANK GUAN ON PANKAJ MISHRA’S CATALOGUE OF ANGLO-AMERICAN MYSTIFICATIONS

Dems the Breaks

GENE SEYMOUR ON RICK PERLSTEIN’S FOUR-BOOK HISTORY OF AMERICAN CONSERVATISM

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

HANNAH BLACK ON CLAUDIA RANKINE’S CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RACE

JAMES HANNAHAM on the lunatic films of Yasuzo Masumura

DAVID O’NEILL interviews Eddie S. Glaude Jr. about James Baldwin

EMILY GOULD on Madeline Miller’s Circe

BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on the season’s outstanding art books

LINDSAY ZOLADZ on a history of gender-bending performers in pop

CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN: Hari Kunzru’s Red Pill

CLAIRE JARVIS: Brandon Taylor’s Real Life

BECCA ROTHFELD: Joseph Roth’s The Coral Merchant: Essential Stories

CHRISTINE SMALLWOOD: Sigrid Nunez’s What Are You Going Through

RUMAAN ALAM: Kate Zambreno’s Drifts

MAYA BINYAM: Akwaeke Emezi’s The Death of Vivek Oji

SASHA FRERE-JONES: Peter L’Official‘s Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin

ALBERT MOBILIO: Renee Gladman & Fred Moten: One Long Black Sentence

DAVID O’NEILL: Jacques Henri Lartigue: The Invention of Happiness, Photographs

GABRIELLE BELLOT: The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

DANIELLE A. JACKSON: Emily J. Lordi‘s The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience Since the 1960s

JANE HU: Sianne Ngai‘s Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form

GEOFFREY O’BRIEN: Alex Ross’s Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

KATE SUTTON: Kapka Kassabova‘s To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace

EMILY LaBARGE: Moyra Davey’s Index Cards

ELIAS RODRIQUES: Andy Horowitz’s Katrina: A History, 1915–2015

RAHEL AIMA: Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto

NATASHA LENNARD: Judith Butler’s The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind

SOPHIE PINKHAM: Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens’s How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for Our Times

MAX READ: Richard Seymour’s The Twittering Machine