After The Last Intellectual Scott McLemee on the legacy of Russell Jacoby’s dirge for the freelance thinker
Jenny Davidson on Maryanne Wolf’s Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain and Jonah Lehrer’s Proust Was a Neuroscientist
Noah Isenberg on Ehrhard Bahr’s Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism and Eric D. Weitz’s Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
Gershom Gorenberg on Benny Morris’s Making Israel and Ahmad H. Sa’di and Lila Abu-Lughod’s Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory
Stephanie Hanson on John Worthen’s Robert Schumann: Life and Death of a Musician and Beate Perrey’s The Cambridge Companion to Schumann
Gerald Early on Michael G. Long’s First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson
Brian Thomas Gallagher on Mark Maske’s War Without Death: A Year of Extreme Competition in Pro Football’s NFC East
Joscelyn Jurich on Lucy Popescu and Carole Seymour-Jones’s Writers Under Siege: Voices of Freedom from Around the World
Aruna D’Souza on Jonathan Miles’s The Wreck of the Medusa: The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century
Irene Gammel on Allan Antliff’s Anarchy and Art: From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall
