The Realism Deal 

Bookforum talks with Brandon Taylor
Stephanie Wambugu

Quite Contrary

Arundhati Roy’s memoir of her mother
Meghan O’Rourke

If the Gumshoe Fits

The Thomas Pynchon experience
Christian Lorentzen

Hymn to a Life

A biography of poet James Schuyler
Hannah Zeavin

I Meme Business

Joanna Walsh’s history of amateur creativity on the internet
Katie Kadue
Paper Trail
Ocean Vuong talks with Björk; 4Columns will publish their final issue next June
Bookforum editors
Fiction
Raising the Bardo
Hermione Hoby
Interview
Bookforum talks with Ariana Reines
Zachary Pace
bookforum
Culture
Built to Spill
Hiji Nam
Fiction
Loop Dreams
Sophie Kemp
Fiction
This Is Not My Beautiful Life
Elvia Wilk