No Heaven on Earth Kim Todd on Maria Sibylla Merian, Maurice Manning on the prairie, and Nicole Rudick on Patricia Johanson
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
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
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
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
Christopher Cox on Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don’t: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof edited by Karin Bauer
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
