The Making of American Literature

GERALD HOWARD ON THE LETTERS OF MALCOLM COWLEY

Tripping Points

JIM NEWELL ON THE SHAKY MYTHS OF AMERICAN SUCCESS

Bedtime for Maestro

HELAINE OLEN ON ALAN GREENSPAN’S BUCK PASSING

Funding Fathers

CHRIS LEHMANN ON CAMPAIGN FINANCE AND THE SHUTDOWN DEBACLE

CHRISTOPHER LYON on recent art books

CHOIRE SICHA on James Franco’s fiction act

MELANIE REHAK on the heyday of the Automat

HEATHER HAVRILESKY on Nora Ephron’s legacy

ANN FRIEDMAN on Dale Carnegie’s winning style

RENÉ STEINKE: Flannery O’Connor’s A Prayer Journal

GEORGE SCIALABBA: Scott Stossel’s My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind

REBECCA TUHUS-DUBROW: Jessica Lamb-Shapiro’s Promise Land: My Journey Through America’s Self-Help Culture

CLAIRE MESSUD: Rebecca Mead’s My Life in Middlemarch and Wendy Lesser’s Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books

LAUREN O’NEILL-BUTLER: Lorna Simpson: Works on Paper

PRUDENCE PEIFFER: Isa Genzken: Retrospective

KAELEN WILSON-GOLDIE: Svetlana Alpers’s Roof Life

ALBERT MOBILIO: Simon Menner’s Top Secret: Images from the Stasi Archives

J. HOBERMAN: Eleanor Antin’s Conversations with Stalin

DAMON KRUKOWSKI: Johan Kugelberg, Michael P. Daley, and Paul Major’s Enjoy the Experience: Homemade Records 1958–1992

KATE CHRISTENSEN: Gary Shteyngart’s Little Failure

MELISSA ANDERSON: Hilton Als’s White Girls

CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN: J. Michael Lennon’s Norman Mailer: A Double Life and Norman Mailer’s Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays

NOAH ISENBERG: Ben Urwand’s The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler

BEN SCHWARTZ: Sam Wasson’s Fosse

CHRIS WILSON: Fred Vogelstein’s Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution

CHRIS BRAY: Stephen Kinzer’s The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War

ASTRA TAYLOR: Brad Stone’s The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

JAMELLE BOUIE: David L. Chappell’s Waking from the Dream: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr.

HUSSEIN IBISH: Ahdaf Soueif’s Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed

The Time Regulation Institute by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

JOSEPH BRAUDE: Reuven Snir’s Baghdad: The City in Verse

FIONA MAAZEL: Dave Eggers’s The Circle

JENNY DAVIDSON: Nicola Griffith’s Hild

BENJAMIN ANASTAS: Marcos Giralt Torrente’s The End of Love

ERIC BANKS: Curzio Malaparte’s The Skin