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Blond Ambition

One hundred years of Marilyn Monroe
Moira Donegan

Brawl in the Family

Karan Mahajan’s maximalist saga of family squabbles and political change in India
Jessi Jezewska Stevens

Rip It Up and Start Again

Solvej Balle’s seven-volume time loop
Christine Smallwood

Mediations in an Emergency

Ben Lerner’s latest novel contemplates multiple layers of reality
Brandon Taylor
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The Spring issue of Bookforum is out now!
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Culture
The Ironman Cometh
Carl Wilson
Culture
A Heartbreaking Work of Swaggering Genius
Omari Weekes
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Fiction
The Realism Deal 
Stephanie Wambugu
Culture
Quite Contrary
Meghan O’Rourke
Fiction
If the Gumshoe Fits
Christian Lorentzen