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HANNAH BLACK ON JEFFREY TOOBIN’S CHRONICLE OF THE 2020 IMPEACHMENT TRIAL

A Heart Is Not a Nation

JEFF SHARLET ON HATE IN THE TRUMP ERA

Oh, Mercy

MOIRA DONEGAN ON THE LEFT’S #METOO BACKLASH

CHARLOTTE SHANE on the joys of quarantine TikTok

MICHAEL ROBBINS on the escapist fun of the Jack Reacher series

AMBER ROSE JOHNSON interviews Kevin Young

LINDSAY ZOLADZ on the enduring songcraft of Dolly Parton

BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on the season’s outstanding art books

AUDREY WOLLEN on Diana Markosian’s Santa Barbara

CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN: Martin Amis’s Inside Story

LOVIA GYARKYE: Marie NDiaye’s That Time of Year

BECCA ROTHFELD: Franz Kafka’s The Lost Writings

COLM TÓIBÍN: Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain

HUBERT ADJEI-KONTOH: P. Lewis’s Nate

A. S. HAMRAH: Adam Nayman’s Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks

LESLIE JAMISON: Nathalie Léger’s Exposition, Suite for Barbara Loden, and The White Dress

JUSTIN TAYLOR: The Collected Breece D’J Pancake: Stories, Fragments, Letters

ALBERT MOBILIO: Noah Davis

DAVID O’NEILL: Ming Smith: An Aperture Monograph

JANIQUE VIGIER: Celia Paul’s Self-Portrait

KAITLIN PHILLIPS: Ben Widdicombe’s Gatecrasher: How I Helped the Rich Become Famous and Ruin the World

JANE HU: José Esteban Muñoz’s The Sense of Brown

NATHAN TAYLOR PEMBERTON: André Gregory and Todd London’s This Is Not My Memoir

JESSE BARRON: Reeves Wiedeman’s Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork

SARAH JAFFE: Kate Soper’s Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism

SASHA FRERE-JONES: on American history and American myths

REBECCA PANOVKA: Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution