Bookforum is an American book review magazine devoted to books and the discussion of literature that was based in New York City, New York. The magazine was founded in 1994 and announced in December of 2022 it would cease publishing after 28 years of publication. History The magazine was launched in 1994 as a literary supplement to Artforum. Originally published biannually, it became a quarterly in 1998, and since 2005, the magazine 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." In addition to publishing book reviews, essays and current-events columns, the magazine regularly features interviews with authors, including: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Martin Amis John Ashbery John Barth A. S. Byatt Jerome Charyn Lydia Davis Umberto Eco Mary Gaitskill Nadine Gordimer Aleksandar Hemon Amy Hempel John Irving Jhumpa Lahiri Doris Lessing Bernard-Henri Lévy Alan Moore Lorrie Moore Haruki Murakami Cees Nooteboom Joyce Carol Oates Michael Ondaatje Alain Robbe-Grillet Salman Rushdie Vikram Seth Susan Sontag Muriel Spark Robert Stone Gore Vidal William T. Vollmann 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. On December 12, 2022, Bookforum announced it would cease publication after Penske Media Corporation (PMC) announced it acquired Bookforums companion publication Artforum earlier that month. Notable contributors J. G. Ballard, novelist and short-story writer John Banville, novelist and critic Harold Bloom, academic and critic Louise Bourgeois, artist A. S. Byatt, novelist and poet Billy Collins, poet Dennis Cooper, writer, editor and artist Lydia Davis, short-story writer and translator Stacey D'Erasmo, novelist Michael Dirda, critic Geoff Dyer, novelist and critic Gerald Early, writer and academic Jennifer Egan, novelist and short-story writer Dave Eggers, writer and publisher Richard Ford, novelist and short-story writer Mary Gaitskill, novelist and short-story writer William H. Gass, writer Keith Gessen, co-founder of literary magazine n+1 Thelma Golden, curator Nan Goldin,