Bookforum - Review / by CARLOS VON DER HEYDE

The December 2022 final winter issue of Bookforum featured an image from Carlos’ “Souls of a Movement” ongoing project in Omari Weekes’ review of “Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta,” James Hannaham’s most recent novel.

Bookforum, the New York-based sister magazine of art-world glossy Artforum, launched in 1994 and has served as a haven for literary criticism and commentary. In addition to publishing book reviews and essays, the magazine regularly featured interviews with authors and artists, including Umberto Eco, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie, Susan Sontag, Nan Goldin, Louise Bourgeois and Barbara Kruger.

Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art, which features in-depth articles and reviews, as well as book reviews, columns on cinema and popular culture, personal essays, and commissioned artworks and essays.

James Hannaham (born 1968) is a writer, performer, and visual artist. His novel Delicious Foods (2015), which deals with human trafficking, won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and was named one of Publishers Weekly's top ten books of the year. The New York Times called it an “ambitious, sweeping novel of American captivity and exploitation.”