Obama’s World MICHAEL LIND ON HOW THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE HAS STRATEGICALLY DOWNSIZED US FOREIGN POLICY
RUTH FRANKLIN: Alice Kessler-Harris’s A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman
ATOSSA ARAXIA ABRAHAMIAN: Daniel Levin Becker’s Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature
PETER ARKLE: David Rees’s How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, and Civil Servants
J. HOBERMAN: Katerina Clark’s Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931–1941
NOAH ISENBERG: Miriam Bratu Hansen’s Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno
SUZY HANSEN: Christopher de Bellaigue’s Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup
PETER MANSEAU: Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful
RHONDA LIEBERMAN: M. G. Lord’s The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice
HEATHER HAVRILESKY: Elisabeth Badinter’s The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women
