Fugitive Love
Marguerite Young’s search for utopia
Tinker Taylor
LITTLE WALTER’S “Blues with a Feeling” is a majestic song whose title is kind of redundant. Blues is a feeling, whether filtered through Hank Williams’s full-moon howling or channeled through…
Reckless Regard
A posthumous collection by rogue anthropologist David Graeber
Dance Dance Revolution
Bookforum talks with Emily Witt about dancing, drugs, and breakdown
Theatrical Release
The words are a good description of a first-person narrator, that personage who at least since Jane Eyre has been a spotlight-hogging wallflower. Set in that lineage, David’s vocation is…
A History of Violence
On Gisèle Pelicot, Virginie Despentes, and post-#MeToo narratives
Sweet Days of Discipline
Jane DeLynn’s novel of a student’s sexual awakening
My Brilliant Fiend
Elfriede Jelinek’s screwball zombie epic
The Secret History
An investigation of the US’s mass internment of Japanese Americans