DAPHNE MERKIN: Lucy Lethbridge’s Servants: A Downstairs History of Britain from the Nineteenth Century to Modern Times and Alison Light’s Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury
ANN FRIEDMAN: Barbara Ehrenreich’s Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever’s Search for the Truth About Everything
DAVID O’NEILL: Steven Jacobs and Lisa Colpaert’s The Dark Galleries: A Museum Guide to Painted Portraits in Film Noir, Gothic Melodramas, and Ghost Stories of the 1940s and 1950s
PETER MANSEAU: Donald S. Lopez Jr. and Peggy McCracken’s In Search of the Christian Buddha: How an Asian Sage Became a Medieval Saint
EVGENY MOROZOV: Astra Taylor’s The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
JESSICA VALENTI: Christopher Leonard’s The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business
