Reflections Reflections by Madison Smartt Bell, Daniel Kehlmann, Richard Flanagan, Dana Spiotta, Lydia Millet, Dubravka Ugresic, Norman Rush, Valerie Martin, Claire Messud, Margot Livesey, Zakes Mda, and Siddhartha Deb
Nick Poppy on A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry by Sharon Weinberger and Nathan Hodge
Jonathan Schell on Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker
Wendy Lesser on A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy and The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso
Rick Perlstein on The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s by G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert S. Weisbrot
Scott McLemee on French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States by François Cusset
Richard Byrne on The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet
Bryan Walsh on The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester
Nicole Lanctot on Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture edited by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky
