U Mad?

LAUREN OYLER ON HOW TO TROLL BOOK PEOPLE AND OTHER GULLIBLE ROMANTICS

How to Survive a Movement

MOIRA DONEGAN ON SARAH SCHULMAN’S HISTORY OF ACT UP

What Are You Looking At?

DAYNA TORTORICI ON MADONNA’S TRUTH OR DARE

Manifesto Destiny

LIDIJA HAAS ON WRITING THAT DEMANDS CHANGE NOW

Like Rain on Your Wedding Day

CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN ON THE SENTIMENTAL, THE GOTHIC, AND THE IRONIC

What forms of art, activism, and literature can speak authentically today?

BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on the risky books they’d like to read now

Double Masking

MELISSA ANDERSON on Ingmar Bergman’s Persona

A Restroom with a View

JASMINE SANDERS on Brontez Purnell’s elliptical short fiction

Neither Fairy nor Foul

AUDREY WOLLEN on the Cottingley fairy photographs

Eat, Slay, Love

BLAIR McCLENDON on Claire Denis’s boundary-breaking art

The Book(s) I Want

EILEEN MYLES on the books men should write

Dare Package

MINNA ZALLMAN PROCTOR on an anthology of transgressive writing

Alt That’s Fit to Print

GENE SEYMOUR on the dangers and rewards of speculative fiction

Aghast Interpretation

LISA BORST on the Cold War panic over hidden messages in ads

Commit to the Bit

OMARI WEEKES on Paul Beatty’s classic collection of Black comedy

MICHAEL ROBBINS on the way we watch (and rewatch) movies now

BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on the season’s outstanding art books

CARL WILSON on Rickie Lee Jones’s hardscrabble genius

JAMES CAMP: Andrew O’Hagan’s Mayflies

JANIQUE VIGIER: Rachel Cusk’s Second Place

RAWIYA KAMEIR: Daphne A. Brooks’s Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound

SASHA FRERE-JONES: Nathaniel Mackey’s Double Trio: Tej Bet, So’s Notice, Nerve Church

J. HOBERMAN: Gary Panter’s Jimbo: Adventures in Paradise

JOY WILLIAMS: Susan Bernofsky’s Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser

ALBERT MOBILIO: Reggie Burrows Hodges

JOHANNA FATEMAN: Jenny Diski’s Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?

RAHEL AIMA: Lorraine O’Grady’s Writing in Space, 1973–2019 and Both/And