Free Fallin’

CHARLOTTE SHANE ON MAGGIE NELSON’S NEW ESSAY COLLECTION

Hell Can Wait

FRANK GUAN ON JONATHAN FRANZEN’S GREATEST NOVEL

Already Dead

JUSTIN TAYLOR ON JOY WILLIAMS’S VISION OF END TIMES

JAMES HANNAHAM on finding inspiration in Fernando Pessoa

POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR interviews Asali Solomon

BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on the season’s outstanding art books

FT on a new biography of Nico

OMARI WEEKES: Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle

ADAM WILSON: Tao Lin’s Leave Society

CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN: Percival Everett’s The Trees

JENNIFER KRASINSKI: A. L. Snijders’s Night Train

JANE HU: Anthony Veasna So’s Afterparties

JESS BERGMAN: Miriam Toews’s Fight Night

YXTA MAYA MURRAY: Mel D. Cole: American Protest, Photographs 2020–2021

DAPHNE MERKIN: Frances Wilson’s Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence

ALBERT MOBILIO: Winfred Rembert’s Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South

SASHA FRERE-JONES: Tessa Norton and Bob Stanley’s Excavate!: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall and Bob Nickas’s Slang King: M. E. S. on Stage: 1977–2013

MAX FOX: Anna Lvovsky’s Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall

NATHAN GOLDMAN: Daniel K. L. Chua and Alexander Rehding’s Alien Listening: Voyager’s Golden Record and Music from Earth

SARAH BOXER: Philip Larratt-Smith’s Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter, and Mika Yoshitake and Joanna L. Groarke’s Kusama: Cosmic Nature

MELVIN BACKMAN: Claudia Schiffer’s Captivate!: Fashion Photography from the ’90s

NATASHA LENNARD: Harsha Walia’s Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism