Right Makes Might

Kevin Mattson on The Conservative Takeover of American Politics

Voices Carry

Lawrence Hill on Civil War slave narratives

Fiction and Political Fact

Morris Dickstein on Political Novels

Reflections

Reflections by Madison Smartt Bell, Daniel Kehlmann, Richard Flanagan, Dana Spiotta, Lydia Millet, Dubravka Ugresic, Norman Rush, Valerie Martin, Claire Messud, Margot Livesey, Zakes Mda, and Siddhartha Deb

Go Start Anew

David L. Ulin on the ’60s revisited

Radhika Jones on Kenneth Goldsmith

Bookforum talks with Ron Hansen

Bookforum talks with Stephen Shore

Marc Weingarten on Doris Day

Brick Lane, the film; the Bookforum literary calendar

Nicole Rudick on The Americans by Robert Frank

Nicole Rudick on Chemises by Malick Sidibé

Andrew Hultkrans on I Have Fun Everywhere I Go by Mike Edison

Nick Poppy on A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry by Sharon Weinberger and Nathan Hodge

Albert Mobilio on It’s Beautiful Here, Isn’t It . . . : Photographs by Luigi Ghirri

Donna Seaman on The Bishop’s Daughter by Honor Moore

Jonathan Schell on Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker

Paul la Farge on Tintin and the Secret of Literature by Tom McCarthy

Wendy Lesser on A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy and The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso

Richard Wolin on Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius by Detlev Claussen

Rick Perlstein on The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s by G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert S. Weisbrot

Gus Russo on The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by David Kaiser

Janine Armin on Pure War by Paul Virilio and Sylvère Lotringer

Scott McLemee on French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States by François Cusset

Richard Byrne on The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet

Amanda Schaffer on Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative by Priscilla Wald

Roland Kelts on Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan by Donald Keene

Bryan Walsh on The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester

Taline Voskeritchian on Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh

Rayyan Al-Shawaf on Origins by Amin Maalouf

Karin L. Kross on Daddy’s Girl by Debbie Drechsler

Nicole Lanctot on Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture edited by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky

Hannah Bloch on The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century by Steve Coll

Matthew Jesse Jackson on Art Power by Boris Groys

Marjorie Welish on Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions by Maggie Nelson

Ross Benjamin on How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Sasa Stanisic

Alex Abramovich on Slumberland by Paul Beatty

Michael Wood on The Delighted States by Adam Thirlwell

James Gibbons on Trauma by Patrick McGrath

Lenora Todaro on The Size of the World by Joan Silber

Jennifer Gilmore on Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love by Lara Vapnyar

Stacey D’Erasmo on Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen

Christopher R. Beha on Personal Days by Ed Park

Katherine Hill on Happy Trails to You by Julie Hecht

Carla Blumenkranz on Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner

Johannah Rodgers on Missy by Chris Hannan

Stefanie Sobelle on A Chronicle of the Madness of Small Worlds by Mac Wellman

Andrea Walker on Harry, Revised by Mark Sarvas

Robert P. Baird on Seven Notebooks by Campbell McGrath