Artforum is certainly one of César Aira’s most charming, quirky, and funny books to date. Consisting of a series of interrelated stories about his compulsion to collectArtforum magazine, this is not about art so much as it is about passionate obsession. At first we follow our hapless collector from magazine shops to used bookstores hunting for copies ofArtforum. A friend alerts him to a copy somewhere and he obsesses about actually going to get it—will the shop be open, will