Seduction and Betrayal

HARMONY HOLIDAY ON HILTON ALS’S LOVE LETTER TO PRINCE

Brood Meridian

JUSTIN TAYLOR ON CORMAC MCCARTHY’S DREAM SONGS ABOUT GENIUS SIBLINGS IN LOVE

Supreme Courtesan

BECCA ROTHFELD ON COLETTE’S CLASSIC NOVELS OF A PROSTITUTE AND HER YOUNG EX-LOVER

Director’s Cut

SASHA FRERE-JONES ON THE ART OF GORDON MATTA-CLARK

BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on this season’s notable art books

BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on their favorite books of 2022

ANGELO HERNANDEZ-SIAS interviews George Saunders

RACHEL TASHJIAN on Bunny Mellon’s majestic, contradictory style

REBECCA ARIEL PORTE: Marcel Proust’s Finding Time Again

OMARI WEEKES: James Hannaham’s Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta

STEPHANIE BURT: N. K. Jemisin’s The World We Make

JESS BERGMAN: Anna Moschovakis’s Participation

LILY MEYER: Lydia Millet’s Dinosaurs

LISA BORST: Sam Lipsyte’s No One Left to Come Looking for You

CHRISTINE SMALLWOOD: Brigitta Olubas’s Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life

J. C. GABEL: Bruce Adams’s You’re with Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music

SOPHIE HAIGNEY: Sheila Liming’s Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

APOORVA TADEPALLI: Jenny Uglow’s Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time

NIKKI SHANER-BRADFORD: Sofi Thanhauser’s Worn: A People’s History of Clothing

SIOBHAN PHILLIPS: Jennifer Homans’s Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century

CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN: Tim Cornwell’s A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré

ALBERT MOBILIO: Frank Bowling’s Americas: New York, 1966–75

BARRY SCHWABSKY: Pierre Fatumbi Verger: United States of America, 1934 & 1937

MICHAEL ROBBINS: David Quammen’s Outbreak: The Scientific Quest to Beat a Deadly Virus