Editor | Michael Miller |
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Former editors |
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Categories | Literature, culture |
Frequency | Quarterly |
Circulation | 60,000[when?] |
Publisher | Bhaskar Sunkara |
Founded | 1994 |
Company | 1865 Publications LLC |
Country | United States |
Based in | New York City, New York |
Language | English |
Website | bookforum |
ISSN | 1098-3376 |
OCLC | 757565508 |
Bookforum is an American book review magazine devoted to books and the discussion of literature. After announcing that it would cease publication in December 2022,[2][3][4][5] it reported its relaunch under the direction of The Nation magazine six months later.[6]
Based in New York City, New York, the magazine was launched in 1994 as a literary supplement to Artforum. Originally published biannually, it became a quarterly in 1998, and since 2005, Bookforum has published five times a year in February, April, June, September, and December.
Describing the magazine to The Village Voice in 2003, former editor (2003–2008) Eric Banks said that the magazine targets a demographic "like the New York Review's but much younger. I think there is an audience of intellectual readers between 25 and 40 out there – the kind of person who buys The New Republic, The Nation, and The New York Review of Books, but doesn't have an allegiance to a particular publication."[7]
In addition to publishing book reviews, essays and current-events columns, the magazine regularly features interviews with authors, including:
In 2009, the magazine's website was redesigned to include a nationwide literary-events calendar, internet exclusive book reviews, two blogs — Paper Trail and Omnivore — and a section called Syllabi, which features reading lists written by authors and critics.[8]
On December 12, 2022, Bookforum announced that it would cease publication following the purchase of its companion magazine Artforum by Penske Media Corporation (PMC) earlier that month.[2][3][4][5] In June 2023, it announced it would return in August 2023 through a partnership with The Nation.[6]