LOUIS BAYARD: Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell’s The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside “The Room,” the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
TOM CARSON: James Wolcott’s Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs
LEONARD BENARDO: Sudhir Venkatesh’s Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy
SARA MARCUS: Michael Stewart Foley’s Front Porch Politics: The Forgotten Heyday of American Activism in the 1970s and 1980s
JIM NEWELL: Mark Leibovich’s This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral—Plus Plenty of Valet Parking!—in America’s Gilded Capital
JEFF STEIN: Andrew Bacevich’s Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country and David Finkel’s Thank You for Your Service
THOMAS FRANK: Jonathan Alter’s The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies and Dan Balz’s Collision 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the Future of Elections in America
JOHANNA FATEMAN: Beatriz Preciado’s Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era and Marie Calloway’s what purpose did i serve in your life
