Absolutely Infamous

ERIC BANKS ON BERTOLT BRECHT’S COMPLEX LEGACY

Planet of the Apes

DALE PECK ON HOW WE MAKE SENSE OF FIGHTING MEN

Torture and Silence

CHASE MADAR ON THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF THE SENATE TORTURE REPORT

CHRISTOPHER LYON on new art books of note

CHOIRE SICHA on the New Republic that was

MELANIE REHAK on a pivotal meeting of American chefs abroad

HEATHER HAVRILESKY on Alexandra Fuller’s family woes

LAURA KIPNIS on Allen Kurzweil’s hunt for a childhood bully

CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant

MINNA PROCTOR: Elisa Albert’s After Birth

KAITLIN PHILLIPS: Miranda July’s The First Bad Man

MICHAEL GREENBERG: Alejandro Zambra’s My Documents

GIDEON LEWIS-KRAUS: Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island

MELISSA ANDERSON: Meghan Daum’s The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

JULIA BRYAN-WILSON: Claire C. Carter’s Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns

JEFFERY RENARD ALLEN: George Clinton’s Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard on You?

ALBERT MOBILIO: Michael Benson’s Cosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through Time

ALBERT MOBILIO: Edward Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works on Paper, Volume 1: 1956–1976

EMILY COOKE: Clancy Martin’s Love and Lies: An Essay on Truthfulness, Deceit, and the Growth and Care of Erotic Love

MARK POLIZZOTTI: Remembered for a While: The Authorized Companion to the Music of Nick Drake

TANYA ERZEN: Peter Manseau’s One Nation, Under Gods: A New American History

STEPHEN PROTHERO: Matthew Avery Sutton’s American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism

GARY GREENBERG: Jeffrey A. Lieberman’s Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry

JAKE LAMAR: Mohsin Hamid’s Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

HUSSEIN IBISH: Patrick Cockburn’s The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution

MALCOLM HARRIS: Steve Fraser’s The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power

CORD JEFFERSON: Jill Leovy‘s Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

JABARI ASIM: Scott Saul’s Becoming Richard Pryor

GENE SEYMOUR: William J. Maxwell’s F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature