Simon Van Booy on The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by ELIF BATUMAN
Clay Risen on Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama by Peniel E. Joseph and We Ain’t What We Ought to Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama by Stephen Tuck
Jeff Stein on The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA’s War on Terror by JOHN KIRIAKOU WITH MICHAEL RUBY
Graeme Wood on The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today by Ted Conover
Ben Schwartz on Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America by Peter Biskind and Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel by Nick Dawson
Gary Indiana on Mark Twain’s Other Woman by Laura Trombley and Mark Twain: Man in White—The Grand Adventure of His Final Years by Michael Shelden
Alexander Provan on Harry Smith: The Avant-Garde in the American Vernacular edited by Andrew Perchuk and Rani Singh
Frances Wilson on Wild Romance: A Victorian Story of a Marriage, a Trial, and a Self-Made Woman by Chloë Schama
Bret McCabe on How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks by Dave Tompkins
Albert Mobilio on Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline by Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton
David O’Neill on This Train Is Bound for Glory by JUSTINE KURLAND, introduction by WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN
Clive Thompson on Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World by Naomi Baron, Txtng: the gr8 db8 by David Crystal, and You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier
Hua Hsu on The Faith of Graffiti by JON NAAR, introduction by NORMAN MAILER, Subway Art: 25th Anniversary Edition by MARTHA COOPER and HENRY CHALFANT, and Born in the Streets: Graffiti edited by HERVÉ CHANDÈS
