ALBERT MOBILIO: Carl Schoonover’s Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century
PHOEBE CONNELLY: Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz’s Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of “The Yellow Wallpaper”
KIM PHILLIPS-FEIN: David Courtwright’s No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America, Dominic Sandbrook’s Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right, Michael Reagan’s The New Reagan Revolution: How Ronald Reagan’s Principles Can Restore America’s Greatness Today, and J. R. Dunn’s Death by Liberalism: The Fatal Outcome of Well-Meaning Liberal Policies
FELIX SALMON: Matt Taibbi‘s Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
KATHERINE MAHER: Nick Cullather‘s The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia