Bookforum Magazine
All about books since 1994. Subscribe to our print magazine today.
- Reposted by Bookforum Magazine[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Bookforum Magazine[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Bookforum Magazine[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Bookforum Magazine[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Bookforum Magazine[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Bookforum Magazine[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Bookforum Magazine[Not loaded yet]
- The Spring issue is here! David Velasco interviews @sarahmschulman.bsky.social, essays & reviews by Lidija Haas, @moiradonegan.bsky.social, @hujane.bsky.social, Audrey Wollen, Harmony Holiday, @charoshane.bsky.social, @sashafrerejones.bsky.social, Hannah Black, and more. bookforum.com/print/3104
- Reposted by Bookforum Magazine[Not loaded yet]
- "The moment is more ludicrous than lubricious; Lynn notes that Miss Maxfeld, in order to smooch the girl, has to 'lift me up so that the heels of my Village Cobbler shoes rose off the floor.'" In our winter issue, Melissa Anderson reviews Jane DeLynn's IN THRALL: www.bookforum.com/print/3103/s...
- "The real crime, Boullosa seems to argue, is not the mere act of stealing, but how theft becomes enshrined into law and then retroactively justified." Read @rachelmonroe.bsky.social on @carmenboullosa.bsky.social's TEXAS: THE GREAT THEFT (@deepvellum.bsky.social): www.bookforum.com/print/3103/t...
- "It is clear today—as perhaps it was not then—that the issue is not awareness. Ours is a world that does not intuit others’ humanity. And ours is a world that does." Mary Turfah reads Isabella Hammad's RECOGNIZING THE STRANGER: ON PALESTINE AND NARRATIVE www.bookforum.com/print/3103/i...
- Reposted by Bookforum Magazine[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Bookforum Magazine[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Bookforum Magazine
[Not loaded yet] - Reposted by Bookforum Magazine[Not loaded yet]
- "Her puns pummel the reader, multiplying meanings; lines possess double (or more) of their sense, no need (no room!) to read between them." Read @jenniferkrasinski.bsky.social on Elfriede Jelinek's THE CHILDREN OF THE DEAD (@yalepress.bsky.social): www.bookforum.com/print/3103/m...
- THE AFTERLIFE IS LETTING GO "becomes an argument against reparations, a treatise on the impossibility of repair through monetization or monumentalization of state-endorsed crimes and atrocities." Harmony Holiday reads @brandonshimoda.bsky.social's new book: www.bookforum.com/print/3103/t...
- "Even these characters’ worst crimes and cruelties are omissions rather than commissions. Di Benedetto’s narrators cannot take hold of anything, even their own callousness." Becca Rothfeld considers Antonio di Benedetto’s "Trilogy of Expectation": www.bookforum.com/print/3103/n...
- "Brainard’s letters read like a natural extension of his creative ethos; regardless of what genre or mode he was working in, he always seemed to be addressing his audience as though it were his own tightknit inner circle." Read Andrew Chan on Joe Brainard: www.bookforum.com/print/3103/c...
- "We as a species must grow more familiar with the basic concept of limits, hard stops, final goodbyes; our world has them, as do our words." Audrey Wollen reads Joy Williams (@tinhouse.bsky.social): www.bookforum.com/print/3103/t...
- "What puzzles me is that divorce has acquired increasing literary significance to the very degree that marriage has forfeited social meaning." Read Hermione Hoby on divorce narratives: www.bookforum.com/print/3103/r...
- "Who is 'we'? Am I you? Like anyone forced to leave family, country, and language behind, the repatriated Kristóf—one of the postwar greats of European literature—would have rather stayed at home." Jessi Jezewska Stevens on Ágota Kristóf: www.bookforum.com/print/3103/y...
- The WINTER ISSUE is here! With Audrey Wollen on Joy Williams, Jessi Jezewska Stevens on Ágota Kristóf, Hermione Hoby on divorce narratives, Andrew Chan on Joe Brainard's letters, and so much more. Read, share, and subscribe today. bookforum.com/print/3103
