JABARI ASIM ON NEW BOOKS ABOUT RACE IN AMERICA
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN ON POST-SOVIET UKRAINE
PRUDENCE PEIFFER ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF DIANE ARBUS
HEATHER HAVRILESKY on the wisdom of bitchiness
TOM CARSON on Joe Conason’s biography of Bill Clinton
MELANIE REHAK on Anthony Bourdain’s brash cookbook
CHRISTOPHER LYON on the season’s art books
KAITLIN PHILLIPS on Tama Janowitz’s unglamorous self-portrait
KATE BOLICK: Ruth Franklin’s Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
BENJAMIN ANASTAS: Javier Marķas’s Thus Bad Begins
KAITLIN PHILLIPS: Nell Zink’s Nicotine
SARAH NICOLE PRICKETT: Jade Sharma’s Problems
STEVEN G. KELLMAN: Rabih Alameddine’s The Angel of History
GERALD HOWARD: Iris Murdoch’s The Sea, the Sea; A Severed Head
GENE SEYMOUR on problems with our presidential-campaign coverage
KAREN OLSSON: Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
MARC EDWARD HOFFMAN: Ece Temelkuran’s Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy
JESSE BARRON: Cody Wilson’s Come and Take It: The Gun Printer’s Guide to Thinking Free
KAELEN WILSON-GOLDIE: Robert F. Worth’s A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
ALBERT MOBILIO: Nicholson Baker’s Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids
JEDEDIAH PURDY: Jason Brennan’s Against Democracy
J. HOBERMAN: Charles Musser’s Politicking and Emergent Media: US Presidential Elections of the 1890s
JOY WILLIAMS: Sue Klebold’s A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
ALBERT MOBILIO: Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen
SUSAN CHOI: Jeffrey Toobin’s American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
LIDIJA HAAS: Emily Witt’s Future Sex
ERIC BANKS: Frances Wilson’s Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey
LAURA KIPNIS: Kristin Dombek’s The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism
GIDEON LEWIS-KRAUS: Mark Greif’s The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973 and Against Everything: Essays
SIMON REYNOLDS: Tim Lawrence’s Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980–1983
JOHANNA FATEMAN: Lynn Hershman Leeson: Civic Radar
NOAH ISENBERG: Stuart Jeffries’s Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School
