Elizabeth Wilson on Diaries by Sergey Prokofiev, Sergey Prokofiev and His World edited by Simon Morrison, and The People’s Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years by Simon Morrison
Maud Newton on Witnessing Suburbia: Conservatives and Christian Youth Culture by Eileen Luhr and To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise by Bethany Moreton
Jeff Stein on Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia by David Vine
Catherine Tumber on Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh by Gerald Grant
Sonya Geis on West of the West: Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State by Mark Arax
Gal Beckerman on Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West by Christopher Caldwell
Trinie Dalton on Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart and Mushroom Magick: A Visionary Field Guide by Arik Roper
Robert O. Paxton on The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation by Frederic Spotts, Art of the Defeat: France 1940–1944 by Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, and Bronzes to Bullets: Vichy and the Destruction of French Public Statuary, 1941–1944 by Kirrily Freeman
Philip Womack on The Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else by Christopher R. Beha
Marjorie Perloff on The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume 1: 1929–1940 edited by Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and Lois More Overbeck
