DAVE ZIRIN: Stephen Amidon’s Something Like the Gods: A Cultural History of the Athlete from Achilles to LeBron
SARA MARCUS: Nato Thompson’s Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991–2011 and Claire Bishop’s Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship
RACHEL SHTEIR: Alex Stone’s Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind
RICK PERLSTEIN: Seth Rosenfeld’s Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power
JIM SLEEPER: Christopher Hayes’s Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy and David W. Noble’s Debating the End of History: The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life
DAVID HAGLUND: Daniel Mendelsohn’s Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture
WILL BOISVERT: Mark Binelli’s Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
