The Story Reteller

SARAH NICOLE PRICKETT ON JACQUELINE ROSE, MOURNING, AND PSYCHOANALYSIS

Shocks to the System

CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN ON DON DELILLO’S NOVELS OF THE COLD WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH

Radical Attention

MOIRA DONEGAN ON JUDITH HERMAN’S STUDIES OF TRAUMA AND JUSTICE

THE EDITORS on the return of Bookforum

CHARLOTTE SHANE on the Beach Boys

ED PARK: Robert Plunket's My Search for Warren Harding

JANIQUE VIGIER: Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos

JANE HU: Emma Cline's The Guest

MINA TAVAKOLI: Henry Bean’s The Nenoquich

ANGELO HERNANDEZ-SIAS: Lorrie Moore’s I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

LISA BORST: Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting

OMARI WEEKES: Maya Binyam’s Hangman

JAMIE HOOD: Annie Ernaux’s The Young Man

FIONA MAAZEL: Hilary Leichter’s Terrace Story

DENNIS LIM: Ian Penman’s Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

SASHA FRERE-JONES: John Szwed's Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith

RYAN RUBY: Brian Dillon's Affinities: On Art and Fascination

HARMONY HOLIDAY: Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes

JO LIVINGSTONE: Jenni Nuttall’s Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words

MATTHEW SHEN GOODMAN: Michael Thomsen’s Cage Kings: How an Unlikely Group of Moguls, Champions & Hustlers Transformed the UFC into a $10 Billion Industry

JENNIFER KRASINSKI: Prudence Peiffer’s The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever

HANNAH ZEAVIN: Alexander Stille’s The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

CHARLIE TYSON: Ross Benjamin’s The Diaries of Franz Kafka

JOHANNA FATEMAN: Anna Cassel: The Saga of the Rose

JESSE BARRON: Nick McDonell’s Quiet Street: On American Privilege

TARPLEY HITT: Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman’s Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud