Bookforum 117 Vol29 Issue 4 December 2022 January February23

ARTS & LETTERS
CHRISTINE SMALLWOOD: Brigitta Olubas’s Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
BARRY SCHWABSKY: Pierre Fatumbi Verger: United States of America, 1934 & 1937
ALBERT MOBILIO: Frank Bowling’s Americas: New York, 1966–75
CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN: Tim Cornwell’s A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré
SIOBHAN PHILLIPS: Jennifer Homans’s Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century
NIKKI SHANER-BRADFORD: Sofi Thanhauser’s Worn: A People’s History of Clothing
APOORVA TADEPALLI: Jenny Uglow’s Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time
SOPHIE HAIGNEY: Sheila Liming’s Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time
J. C. GABEL: Bruce Adams’s You’re with Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music
POLITICS
MICHAEL ROBBINS: David Quammen’s Outbreak: The Scientific Quest to Beat a Deadly Virus