Time to Face Reality

A. S. HAMRAH ON EMILY NUSSBAUM’S HISTORY OF A TV PHENOMENON

The Bad Enough Mother

JANIQUE VIGIER ON CAROLINE BLACKWOOD’S BLEAK COMIC WORLD

Burning Bush

GENE SEYMOUR ON HOW THE EARLY ’90s SET THE STAGE FOR AMERICA’S CROOKED PRESENT

BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on this season’s notable art books

SHEILA HETI interviews Adelle Waldman

CHARLOTTE SHANE: Miranda July’s All Fours

ELVIA WILK: Gabriel Smith’s Brat

LEO ROBSON: Hari Kunzru’s Blue Ruin

ED PARK: Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing Is Monsters: Book Two

JAMIE HOOD: Rachel Cusk’s Parade

ADAM WILSON: Honor Levy’s My First Book

ZAIN KHALID: Percival Everett’s James

JANE HU: Claire Messud’s This Strange Eventful History

JENNIFER KRASINSKI: Peter Schjeldahl’s The Art of Dying: Writings, 2019–2022

DAVID O’NEILL: American Gothic: Gordon Parks and Ella Watson

MOIRA DONEGAN: Christine Blasey Ford’s One Way Back

HANNAH ZEAVIN: Adam Phillips’s On Giving Up

SASHA FRERE-JONES: Michel Leiris’s Frail Riffs

GRACE BYRON: Phillipa Snow’s Trophy Lives: On the Celebrity as an Art Object