Nonfiction

• CURRENT AFFAIRS

  TIM SHORROCK: B.R. Myers's The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves—and Why It Matters

• SOCIOLOGY

  JONATHAN SHAININ: Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

• SOCIOLOGY

  ROSA BROOKS: Eyal Press's Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times

• BIOGRAPHY

  RICHARD GREENWALD: Frank Bardacke's Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers

• POLITICS

  CHARLES HOMANS: Mary Dudziak's War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences

• HUMAN RIGHTS

  MARGUERITE FEITLOWITZ: David Scheffer's All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals

• PHILOSOPHY

  JIM SLEEPER: Simon Critchley's The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology

• MEMOIR

  JAMES GIBBONS: Christopher Benfey's Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival

• MEMOIR

  JENNY DAVIDSON: Sarah Manguso's The Guardians: An Elegy

• ESSAYS

  MICHAEL DIRDA: William Gibson's Distrust That Particular Flavor

• PHOTOGRAPHY

  SHELLEY RICE: Elizabeth Easton's Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard

• POLITICS

  WILL BUNCH: Thomas Frank's Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right

• CURRENT AFFAIRS

  SAMUEL MOYN: Eyal Weizman's The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza

• LITERARY STUDIES

  SHEILA HETI: Frederick Turner's Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of Tropic of Cancer

• MEMOIR

  MIRIAM KATZ: Moshe Kasher's Kasher in the Rye

• MEMOIR

  PARUL SEHGAL: Jeanette Winterson's Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?