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

ALEJANDRA OLIVA interviews Valeria Luiselli

LAUREN OYLER on the success of Sally Rooney

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

ISMAIL MUHAMMAD: Bryan Washington’s Lot

FIONA MAAZEL: Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise

BENJAMIN ANASTAS: Kathleen Alcott’s America Was Hard to Find

SAM HUBER: Édouard Louis’s Who Killed My Father

ERIC BANKS: Enrique Vila-Matas’s Mac’s Problem

SCOTT INDRISEK: Mark Doten’s Trump Sky Alpha

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

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