June/July/Aug 2017

Cover of June/July/Aug 2017

June/July/Aug 2017

COLUMNS

COLUMNS

TOM CARSON on liberals’ sunny delusions

MELANIE REHAK on the lives and meals of six unforgettable women

BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on summer’s notable art books

CHRISTINE SMALLWOOD on erotic fiction with art-world cachet

NAOMI FRY on the late-night hijinks of David Letterman

FICTION

COLM TÓIBÍN: Anuk Arudpragasam’s The Story of a Brief Marriage

BRIAN EVENSON: Victor LaValle’s The Changeling

JON DAY: Joshua Cohen’s Moving Kings

AMITAVA KUMAR: Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

KAITLIN PHILLIPS: Catherine Lacey’s The Answers

ARTS & LETTERS

SUZANNE HUDSON: Alma Thomas

JOY WILLIAMS: Mary V. Dearborn’s Ernest Hemingway: A Biography

MINNA ZALLMAN PROCTOR: Edmund Gordon’s The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography

RACHEL MONROE: Jeff Guinn’s The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

ALBERT MOBILIO: Imponderable: The Archives of Tony Oursler

ALBERT MOBILIO: Rauschenberg / Dante: Drawing a Modern Inferno

KATE SUTTON: Alice Neel, Uptown

PRUDENCE PEIFFER: Laura Raicovich’s At the Lightning Field: An Essay

HANNAH BLACK: Roxane Gay’s Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

CATHERINE DAMMAN: Susan Rosenberg’s Trisha Brown: Choreography as Visual Art

CURRENT AFFAIRS & POLITICS

ATOSSA ARAXIA ABRAHAMIAN: Ann Pettifor’s The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers

GENE SEYMOUR: William J. Maxwell’s James Baldwin: The FBI File

J. HOBERMAN: H. G. Adler’s Theresienstadt 1941–1945: The Face of a Coerced Community

SUZY HANSEN: Trita Parsi’s Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy

ECE TEMELKURAN: Simon A. Waldman and Emre Caliskan’s The New Turkey and Its Discontents

SPECIAL SECTION

GERALD HOWARD on Iris Owens and Olympia Press

JOHANNA FATEMAN on Andrea Dworkin’s Mercy

CHELSEA G. SUMMERS on Dr. Alex Comfort’s The Joy of Sex

CATHERINE SCOTT on Nancy Friday’s Men in Love

CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN ON LUST IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

DAPHNE MERKIN on Jenny Diski’s Nothing Natural

MELISSA ANDERSON on Susan Sontag’s diaries

DAVID VELASCO ON A HAVEN OF QUEER HAPPINESS

PARUL SEHGAL on Diane Arbus

SARAH NICOLE PRICKETT on Alissa Nutting’s Made for Love

ADELLE WALDMAN on Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom

LIDIJA HAAS on Philippe Djian’s Elle

CHARLOTTE SHANE on Jill Nagle’s Whores and Other Feminists

LARISSA PHAM on Mary Gaitskill’s Bad Behavior

JUSTIN TAYLOR on Harold Brodkey