The Naked and the Dead

SASHA FRERE-JONES ON LUCY SANTE’S LAYERED NEW YORK

Some Like It Fraught

A. S. HAMRAH ON HOW BILLY WILDER SURVIVED THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Anti-American Graffiti

HARMONY HOLIDAY ON HIP-HOP PRODUCER J DILLA

ELIVIA WILK interviews Marlon James

BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on this season’s notable art books

RACHEL TASHJIAN on Derek McCormack’s wicked and witty fashion writings

SARA KROLEWSKI: Sarah Manguso’s Very Cold People

CLAIRE JARVIS: Tessa Hadley’s Free Love

ZOE HU: Olga Ravn’s The Employees

JAMIE HOOD: Yūko Tsushima’s Woman Running in the Mountains

LIZZY HARDING: Sheila Heti’s Pure Colour

HANNAH GOLD: Alejandro Zambra’s Chilean Poet

JOANNA BIGGS: Claire-Louise Bennett’s Checkout 19

MELISSA ANDERSON: Kay Dick’s They

HERMIONE HOBY: Laura Kipnis’s Love in the Time of Contagion: A Diagnosis

GENE SEYMOUR: Zora Neale Hurston’s You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Genevieve West

ELIAS RODRIQUES: Adolph L. Reed Jr.’s The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

MICHAEL ROBBINS: David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

BLAIR McCLENDON: Margo Jefferson’s Constructing a Nervous System

BARRY SCHWABSKY: Jens Risom: A Seat at the Table

JENNIFER KRASINSKI: Nicole Rudick’s What Is Now Known Was Once Only Imagined: An (Auto)biography of Niki de Saint Phalle

AVA KOFMAN: Eyal Press’s Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America

NATASHA STAGG: Cookie Mueller’s Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, edited by Hedi El Kholti, Chris Kraus, and Amy Scholder

KATE SUTTON: Barbara Bloemink’s Florine Stettheimer: A Biography

ALBERT MOBILIO: Mamma Andersson: Humdrum Days

NATALIE WALKER: Isaac Butler’s The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act

OMARI WEEKES: La Marr Jurelle Bruce’s How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity

JENNIFER WILSON: Jean-Yves Frétigné’s To Live Is to Resist: The Life of Antonio Gramsci