Michael Roth on Four Jews on Parnassus—A Conversation: Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, Schönberg by Carl Djerassi
T. J. Jackson Lears on Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America’s Culture of Death by Mark S. Schantz and This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
Michael Gorra on The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples by Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller
Ann Friedman on Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women’s Reproduction in America by Jeanne Flavin and The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance and Democracy’s Future by Carol Gilligan and David A. J. Richards
David Kusnet on Trucking Country: The Road to America’s Wal-Mart Economy by Shane Hamilton and A People’s History of Poverty in America by Stephen Pimpare
Hannah Bloch on Islamism in the Shadow of al-Qaeda by François Burgat and The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics by Faisal Devji
J. Hoberman on Tarkovsky edited by Nathan Dunne and Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema by Robert Bird
Gerd Gemünden on Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era edited by Noah Isenberg
Ian Volner on Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles by Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly
Martha Schwendener on A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World by Marcia Tucker
Albert Mobilio on William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961–2008 by Elisabeth Sussman and Thomas Weski
Deb Vanasse on Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People by William L. Iggiagruk Hensley
Brian Cook on You Can’t Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America by John R. MacArthur
Nicole Rudick on The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn’s Archives of the Planet by David Okuefuna
Craig Morgan Teicher on Letters to Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics, and Community edited by Jennifer Firestone and Dana Teen Lomax
Brian Gilmore on How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon by David R. Roediger and What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America by Ariela J. Gross
Erik Davis on My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian
