Santiago Dreaming

ALEJANDRO ZAMBRA IN SANTIAGO

Venetian Blindness

LINDA YABLONSKY IN VENICE

Reading the City

JON RAYMOND IN PORTLAND

Reading the City

MICHELLE ORANGE IN LONDON

Unknown Pleasures

KERRY HOWLEY IN BANGKOK

Beirut Follies

KAELEN WILSON-GOLDIE IN BEIRUT

Historical Friction

TASH AW IN SHANGHAI

Signs of the Times

IVAN VLADISLAVÍC IN JOHANNESBURG

Southern Exposures

JOHN JEREMIAH SULLIVAN FOLLOWS JAMES AGEE INTO THE SOUTHERN INTERIOR

Artist in Training

GEOFF DYER ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF TRAIN HOPPER MIKE BRODIE

Let’s Get Lost

WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN ATTEMPTS TO GO OFF THE GRID

Going, Going, Gone

GOING, GOING, GONE: A SPECIAL TRAVEL SECTION

Polar Extremes

VICTOR LAVALLE IN ANTARCTICA

MELANIE REHAK on Kate Christensen’s memoir of food and family

CHOIRE SICHA on Jaron Lanier and how the Internet went wrong

KEN TUCKER on TV’s difficult men

HEATHER HAVRILESKY on the problems with raising perfect children

JESSICA LOUDIS: Taryn Simon’s An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar

MICHAEL LIND: George Packer’s The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

ALBERT MOBILIO: Charles A. A. Dellschau

JENNIFER HOWARD: Judith Flanders’s The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

CYNTHIA CARR: Catherine Lord and Richard Meyer’s Art & Queer Culture

LEORA MALTZ-LECA: Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life

BARRY SCHWABSKY: Craig Dworkin’s No Medium

DUSHKO PETROVICH: Ben Davis’s 9.5 Theses on Art and Class and Other Writings

MATT WEILAND: Boris Kachka’s Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America’s Most Celebrated Publishing House: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

SARAH LEONARD: Andrew Bolton’s Punk: Chaos to Couture

ASTRA TAYLOR: Ethan Zuckerman’s Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection

CRISTINA NEHRING: Katherine Angel’s Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell

MEEHAN CRIST: Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby

CARLIN ROMANO: Terry Eagleton’s Across the Pond: An Englishman’s View of America and A. A. Gill’s To America with Love

CHRISTOPHER BEHA: Katherine A. Powers’s Suitable Accommodations: An Autobiographical Story of Family Life: The Letters of J. F. Powers, 1942–1963

KIM PHILLIPS-FEIN: David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu’s The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills

DANIEL GROSS: Mark S. Mizruchi’s The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite

ROBERT WESTBROOK: David Graeber’s The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement and David Harvey’s Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

JOHN COOK: Zev Chafets’s Roger Ailes: Off Camera

DAHLIA LITHWICK: Gary May’s Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy

DAMON KRUKOWSKI: Georges Perec’s La Boutique Obscure: 124 Dreams

ADAM WILSON: Travis Nichols’s The More You Ignore Me

ERIC BANKS: Javier Marías’s The Infatuations

HARI KUNZRU: Ma Jian’s The Dark Road

RUTH FRANKLIN: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah