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The Editors
Kierkegaard on the Mississippi
Percival Everett refashions a Mark Twain classic
Zain Khalid
The Bad Enough Mother
Caroline Blackwood’s bleak comic world
Janique Vigier
Burning Bush
How the early ’90s set the stage for America’s crooked present
Gene Seymour
Time to Face Reality
Emily Nussbaum charts the history of a TV phenomenon
A.S. Hamrah
Paper Trail
Colm Tóibín on James Baldwin; a new anthology from n+1
Culture
Disposable Heroes
Moira Donegan
Fiction
Lo Countries
Katie Kadue
PRINT
Libido Re Mi
Miranda July reinvents the midlife-crisis novel
Charlotte Shane
Artful Volumes
Bookforum contributors on the season’s outstanding art books
Bookforum contributors
Flag Day
How Gordon Parks and Ella Watson created an iconic image
David O'Neill
The Fame Monsters
Phillipa Snow's study of art and celebrity
Grace Byron
Zoom and Doom
Honor Levy’s piety-defying debut
Adam Wilson
Culture
Tongues Untied
Karan Mahajan
Fiction
Into the Wild
Joy Williams
Culture
All of Her
Harmony Holiday