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A sister publication of Artforum, Bookforum brings incisive reviews of the latest titles, author interviews, and commentary about current and coming trends and ideas being debated by some of the most interesting writers of our time.
Bookforum Magazine
5M ago
WHEN KERRY HOWLEY PUBLISHED HER FIRST BOOK, Thrown, in 2014, bookstores labeled it a “nonfiction novel.” Its journalistic bona fides were somewhat straightforward—Howley embedded with two real lesser-known ..read more
Bookforum Magazine
6M ago
The CEO of Penguin Random House, Markus Dohle, is stepping down /www.cnbc.com/2022/12/09/penguin-random-house-ceo-leaves-after-failed-simon-schuster-merger.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=Main&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1670595550> ..read more
Margo Jefferson on questioning her writing self; New York Times Guild says a work stoppage is likely
Bookforum Magazine
6M ago
A work stoppage on Thursday from members of the New York Times Guild is likely /twitter.com/NYTimesGuild/status/1600118102422953986>. Last week, over 1,000 union members pledged ..read more
Bookforum Magazine
6M ago
Author and filmmaker Astra Taylor gives a short talk on student loans and how we can rethink debt /www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-brief-but-spectacular-take-on-abolishing-debt>. The Feminist Press is ..read more
Bookforum Magazine
6M ago
The comics artist Aline Kominsky-Crumb has died at age seventy-four /www.artforum.com/news/aline-kominsky-crumb-1948-2022-89785>. Beginning in the early 1970s, Kominsky-Crumb pioneered an unfiltered ..read more
Bookforum Magazine
6M ago
Emma Grove opens her graphic memoir, The Third Person, with a therapy session already underway. We don’t know anything about the therapist’s intentions or the patient’s reliability or even her hold on ..read more
Bookforum Magazine
6M ago
Bookforum contributor Harmony Holiday discusses /www.benningtonreview.org/eleven-interview> her latest poetry book, an epic called Maafa, with Sandra Simonds for the Bennington Review: “Epic heroes ..read more
Bookforum Magazine
6M ago
Echoing the murky sheen of sidewalk puddles, Salman Toor’s paintings revel in the absinthe-green palette of inebriation and hallucination. His compositions whisper of the dark delights of unlit ..read more
Bookforum Magazine
6M ago
IT IS FITTING THAT BRUCE ADAMS’S NEW BOOK, the sardonically titled You’re with Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music, begins at Jim’s Grill on the North Side: it was the first ..read more
Bookforum Magazine
6M ago
WHO WAS BUNNY MELLON? A photo caption in the opening pages of the new book I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise: A Life of Bunny Mellon (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $40), by her erstwhile ghostwriter-cum-biographer ..read more