Anti-American Graffiti

HARMONY HOLIDAY ON HIP-HOP PRODUCER J DILLA

Some Like It Fraught

A. S. HAMRAH ON HOW BILLY WILDER SURVIVED THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

The Naked and the Dead

SASHA FRERE-JONES ON LUCY SANTE’S LAYERED NEW YORK

RACHEL TASHJIAN on Derek McCormack’s wicked and witty fashion writings

BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on this season’s notable art books

ELIVIA WILK interviews Marlon James

LIZZY HARDING: Sheila Heti’s Pure Colour

MELISSA ANDERSON: Kay Dick’s They

JOANNA BIGGS: Claire-Louise Bennett’s Checkout 19

HANNAH GOLD: Alejandro Zambra’s Chilean Poet

JAMIE HOOD: Yūko Tsushima’s Woman Running in the Mountains

ZOE HU: Olga Ravn’s The Employees

CLAIRE JARVIS: Tessa Hadley’s Free Love

SARA KROLEWSKI: Sarah Manguso’s Very Cold People

JENNIFER WILSON: Jean-Yves Frétigné’s To Live Is to Resist: The Life of Antonio Gramsci

OMARI WEEKES: La Marr Jurelle Bruce’s How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity

NATALIE WALKER: Isaac Butler’s The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act

ALBERT MOBILIO: Mamma Andersson: Humdrum Days

KATE SUTTON: Barbara Bloemink’s Florine Stettheimer: A Biography

NATASHA STAGG: Cookie Mueller’s Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, edited by Hedi El Kholti, Chris Kraus, and Amy Scholder

HERMIONE HOBY: Laura Kipnis’s Love in the Time of Contagion: A Diagnosis

AVA KOFMAN: Eyal Press’s Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America

JENNIFER KRASINSKI: Nicole Rudick’s What Is Now Known Was Once Only Imagined: An (Auto)biography of Niki de Saint Phalle

BARRY SCHWABSKY: Jens Risom: A Seat at the Table

BLAIR McCLENDON: Margo Jefferson’s Constructing a Nervous System

MICHAEL ROBBINS: David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

ELIAS RODRIQUES: Adolph L. Reed Jr.’s The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

GENE SEYMOUR: Zora Neale Hurston’s You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Genevieve West