Bookforum
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ISSN: 1098-3367 Founded: 1996 Issues per year: 5 Distributors: Total Circulation Services, IPD, Ingram Copy Price: $3.95 Subscription (Individuals): $16 Subscription (Libraries): $24
Publisher’s Description: Bookforum features the best in forthcoming fiction, thought-provoking criticism, stimulating essays on intellectual history and visual culture, and scintillating interviews with prominent authors like A. L. Kennedy and William Boyd.
Bookforum is steeped in compelling nonfiction and scholarly titles from university and trade presses, as well as art and fiction gems from small presses. Readers will find Bookforum refreshing and spirited, covering a dazzling array of topics from Iran in the '70s to China today. From Jewish women's salons to digital environmentalism. Baseball (James Surowiecki on the sport's statistical revolution) to book reviewing (Sven Birkerts on “snark” and the state of the art).
With its array of leading writers and contributors, including notable critics like Germaine Greer, John Banville, and Greil Marcus, prizewinning authors like Rick Moody, Francine Prose, and Francisco Goldman, and distinguished writers like Richard Wolin and Deirdre Bair, Bookforum delights independent-minded readers with a signature mix of the pop and the profound.
Recent articles include Paul Maliszewski's critical examination of Michael Chabon's ersatz Holocaust memoir, Marjorie Perloff on Elfriede Jelinek, Paul Berman's recollections of Daniel Bell and Columbia '68, and a special section on Thomas Pynchon with such writers as Don DeLillo, Lorrie Moore, Gerald Howard, and Jeffrey Eugenides.