Apr/May 2019 Apr/May 2019 Archive COLUMNS FEATURES Parkland, One Year Later PATRICK BLANCHFIELD ON THE POLITICS OF GUN CONTROL It Gets Worse KATE ARONOFF ON THE CLIMATE CATASTROPHE Wonk Quixote ROY SCRANTON ON NATHANIEL RICH’S CLIMATE-CHANGE FAIRY TALE Inherent Vice JENNIFER KRASINSKI ON THE COLORFUL GENIUS OF COUTURIER CHARLES JAMES COLUMNS RACHEL SYME on the daily routines of women writers and artists MAX READ on a new history of computer programmers BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on the season’s outstanding art books LAUREN OYLER on the success of Sally Rooney ALEJANDRA OLIVA interviews Valeria Luiselli FICTION SCOTT INDRISEK: Mark Doten’s Trump Sky Alpha ERIC BANKS: Enrique Vila-Matas’s Mac’s Problem SAM HUBER: Édouard Louis’s Who Killed My Father BENJAMIN ANASTAS: Kathleen Alcott’s America Was Hard to Find FIONA MAAZEL: Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise ISMAIL MUHAMMAD: Bryan Washington’s Lot ARTS & LETTERS CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN: Colin Asher’s Never a Lovely So Real: The Life and Work of Nelson Algren ALBERT MOBILIO: David McMillan’s Growth and Decay: Pripyat and the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone SASHA FRERE-JONES: Joshua Sperling’s A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger MELISSA ANDERSON: Lillian Ross’s Picture MOLLY FISCHER: Megan K. Stack’s Women’s Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home LAUREN O’NEILL-BUTLER: Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here CHARLIE MARKBREITER: Lotte Laserstein: Face to Face BRIAN DILLON: Intermedia, Fluxus and the Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins CURRENT AFFAIRS & POLITICS CHARLOTTE SHANE: David Shields’s The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power and Lili Boisvert’s Screwed: How Women Are Set Up to Fail at Sex ANDREA LONG CHU: Bret Easton Ellis’s White MALCOLM HARRIS: Adam Gopnik’s A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism FRANK GUAN: Bhaskar Sunkara’s The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality JESS ROW: Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval RICHARD BECK: Daniel Immerwahr’s How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
CHARLOTTE SHANE: David Shields’s The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power and Lili Boisvert’s Screwed: How Women Are Set Up to Fail at Sex
FRANK GUAN: Bhaskar Sunkara’s The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
JESS ROW: Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval