Chris Rasmussen on Seaway to the Future: American Social Visions and the Construction of the Panama Canal by Alexander Missal and The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the Panama Canal by Julie Greene
Matthew Yglesias on The Godfather Doctrine: A Foreign Policy Parable by John C. Hulsman and A. Wess Mitchell and The Myth of American Exceptionalism by Godfrey Hodgson
Chris Lehmann on The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America by William Kleinknecht
Choire Sicha on The Age of Anxiety: A History of America’s Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers by Andrea Tone
Mark Kingwell on The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self by Thomas Metzinger and Why Us? How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves by James Le Fanu
Peter Manseau on When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
Linda Nochlin on The Journals of Grace Hartigan, 1951–1955 edited by William T. La Moy and Joseph P. McCaffrey
Laura Frost on Gypsy: The Art of the Tease by Rachel Shteir and Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee by Noralee Frankel
Mark Caldwell on Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York by Donna Dennis
Ben Schwartz on The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics by Denis Kitchen and Paul Buhle and Humbug by Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis, Will Elder, Al Jaffee, and Arnold Roth
Erkki Huhtamo on White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960–1980 edited by Paul Brown, Charlie Gere, Nicholas Lambert, and Catherine Mason
Ben Kafka on Franz Kafka: The Office Writings edited by Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg, and Benno Wagner
Mark Lamster on A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, A World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played by Marshall Jon Fisher
