HANNAH GOLD: John Gregory Dunne’s Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season

MARY TURFAH: Gardiner Harris’s No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson

DAVID O’NEILL: Michelle Kuo’s Jack Whitten: The Messenger

AUDREY WOLLEN: Roger Shattuck’s The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron

ELIAS ALTMAN: Jamie Hood’s Trauma Plot: A Life

JOSIE MITCHELL: Jamaica Kincaid’s Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974–

TARPLEY HITT: Bridget Read’s Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America

ERIC BANKS: Ian Penman’s Erik Satie Three Piece Suite

RYAN RUBY: Marco Filoni’s The Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève

HIJI NAM: Keith McNally’s I Regret Almost Everything