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Thomas Frank on Norman Mailer versus pollsters
Verlyn Klinkenborg on Nature Writing
Kim Todd on Maria Sibylla Merian, Maurice Manning on the prairie, and Nicole Rudick on Patricia Johanson
Rachel Cohen on Home by Marilynne Robinson
Rick Moody on The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin
Jennifer Egan on Other Lives by André Brink
Rivka Galchen on The Only Son by Stéphane Audeguy
John Freeman on To Siberia by Per Petterson
Amy Gerstler on Ms. Hempel Chronicles by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Laura Stokes on Out Backward by Ross Raisin
Maya Jaggi on Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Craig Seligman on What Can I Do When Everything’s on Fire? by António Lobo Antunes
Britt Peterson on Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
Sarah Fay on A Manuscript of Ashes by Antonio Muñoz Molina
Lisa Shea on Two Marriages by Phillip Lopate
Domenick Ammirati on The Pisstown Chaos by David Ohle
Thomas Israel Hopkins on Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth
Tayt Harlin on Voice Over by Céline Curiol
Rebecca Donner on In the Land of No Right Angles by Daphne Beal
Quinn Latimer on The Virgin Formica by Sharon Mesmer
Christopher Sorrentino on The Development by John Barth
Ben Schwartz on Little Orphan Annie
Mister Foe
Bookforum talks with Peter Hinke
Bookforum talks with Anne Enright
Matt Madden on new comics titles
Burton Hersh on Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA by Melvin A. Goodman and The CIA and the Culture of Failure: US Intelligence from the End of the Cold War to the Invasion of Iraq by John Diamond
Phoebe Connelly on Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee by Bee Wilson and Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honeybee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis by Rowan Jacobsen
John L. Allen Jr. on What Happened at Vatican II by John W. O’Malley
Hussein Ibish on The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower by Robert Baer and The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace by Aaron David Miller
Douglas Porch on Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq by Peter R. Mansoor
Tim Jeal on The End of the Game: The Last Word from Paradise by Peter Beard
Jennifer Howard on Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart by Tim Butcher
Catherine Tumber on Society Without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment by Phil Zuckerman and Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist by Sharman Apt Russell
Jabari Asim on God and Race in American Politics: A Short History by Mark A. Noll
Peter Terzian on Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
Trevor Butterworth on The Ethics of the Lie by Jean-Michel Rabaté
Jeff Stein on The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service by Andrew Meier
Michael Famighetti on The Memory of Pablo Escobar by James Mollison
Nicole Rudick on Nobody’s Home by Dubravka Ugresic
Michael O’Donnell on The Invisible Constitution by Laurence H. Tribe
Jeet Heer on Essex County by Jeff Lemire
Daphne Merkin on The Men in My Life by Vivian Gornick
Catherine Morris on Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s by Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Yvonne Rainer: The Mind Is a Muscle by Catherine Wood, and Feelings Are Facts: A Life by Yvonne Rainer
Geoff Nicholson on Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt
Albert Mobilio on The Circus, 1870–1950 edited by Noel Daniel
Christopher Cox on Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don’t: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof edited by Karin Bauer
Joscelyn Jurich on The Jive Talker: An Artist’s Genesis by Samson Kambalu
Nicole Rudick on Gary Panter
Martha Schwendener on Lives of the Artists by Calvin Tomkins
Yona Zeldis McDonough on Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
Scott Bradfield on The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British by Sarah Lyall
Melanie Rehak on Looking for Anne of Green Gables: The Story of L. M. Montgomery and Her Literary Classic by Irene Gammel
Rachel Aviv on The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning by Peter Trachtenberg
Albert Mobilio on NATO: The Military Codification System for the Ordering of Everything in the World by Suzanne Treister
