The Last Waltz

MARJORIE PERLOFF ON GREGOR VON REZZORI AND THE FINAL DAYS OF THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE

West Toward Home

CHARLES PETERSEN TRACKS MARILYNNE ROBINSON’S INTELLECTUAL PILGRIMAGE

Desolation Angles

BARRY SCHWABSKY ON LEWIS BALTZ’S WORKS

MELANIE REHAK on cooking with apps

MICHAEL GREENBERG on the fantasies of suburban life

BEN SCHWARTZ on Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy

RICHARD HELL: Ariana Reines’s Coeur de Lion and Mercury

J. W. MCCORMACK: Tom McCarthy’s Men in Space

CHRISTOPHER BYRD: Steve Erickson’s These Dreams of You

CHRISTOPHER R. BEHA: Peter Cameron’s Coral Glynn

JESSICA WINTER: Heidi Julavits’s The Vanishers

CHRISTOPHER SORRENTINO: Hari Kunzru’s Gods Without Men

WILLIAM GIRALDI: Adam Wilson’s Flatscreen

ERIC BANKS: Edward St. Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother’s Milk, and At Last

J. HOBERMAN: László Krasznahorkai’s Satantango

GARY INDIANA: The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume II: 1941–1956

ALBERT MOBILIO: Kevin Erskine’s Supercell

JOHANNA FATEMAN: Alex Bag

TIM SHORROCK: B.R. Myers’s The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves—and Why It Matters

JONATHAN SHAININ: Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

ROSA BROOKS: Eyal Press’s Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times

RICHARD GREENWALD: Frank Bardacke’s Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers

CHARLES HOMANS: Mary Dudziak’s War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences

MARGUERITE FEITLOWITZ: David Scheffer’s All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals

JIM SLEEPER: Simon Critchley’s The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology

JAMES GIBBONS: Christopher Benfey’s Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival

JENNY DAVIDSON: Sarah Manguso’s The Guardians: An Elegy

MICHAEL DIRDA: William Gibson’s Distrust That Particular Flavor

SHELLEY RICE: Elizabeth Easton’s Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard

WILL BUNCH: Thomas Frank’s Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right

SAMUEL MOYN: Eyal Weizman’s The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza

SHEILA HETI: Frederick Turner’s Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of Tropic of Cancer

MIRIAM KATZ: Moshe Kasher’s Kasher in the Rye

PARUL SEHGAL: Jeanette Winterson’s Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?