Family Ties

FAMILY TIES

Mothers of Invention

PARUL SEHGAL ON THE RADICAL TRANSPARENCY OF NEW BOOKS ABOUT PARENTHOOD

The Moynihan Family Circus

STEPHANIE COONTZ ON THE MISDIAGNOSIS OF THE AMERICAN FAMILY’S ILLS

A City of One’s Own

ELIZABETH GUMPORT on Vivian Gornick’s memoir of life without marriage

Fierce Attachments

CLAIRE MESSUD on Sally Mann and the art of family

Alone Together

JESSE BARRON on the mystery of the Tsarnaev brothers

The Lost Father

ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG on the ravages of Alzheimer’s

Native Son

Colm Tóibín on Henry James

Darkness Invisible

Blake Bailey on Evan S. Connell’s Bridge novels

Brood Disorder

Emily Gould on Barbara Comyns

A Roam with a View

Michael Miller on Ben Lerner’s 10:04

Mother from Another Planet

Stephen Burt on Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber

The Guys Who Came in from the Cold

Alexander Chee on Ethan Mordden and coming-out fiction

Of Human Bondage

Nikil Saval on Joseph Heller’s Something Happened

It Takes More than a Village

Prize Stock by Kenzaburō Ōe

A Temperamental Education

Porochista Khakpour on Alison C. Rose’s Better Than Sane

Inherited Vice

Brenda Wineapple on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables

A Different Breed

James Hannaham on Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love

The Interpretation of Screams

Joy Williams on Christina Stead’s The Man Who Loved Children

The Notion of Family

LaToya Ruby Frazier’s The Notion of Family

Rachel, Monique . . .

Sophie Calle‘s Rachel, Monique . . .

Embodiment

Molly Landreth‘s Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America

Family Life

Thomas Struth‘s Family Life

The Home Stage

Jessica Todd Harper‘s The Home Stage

The Brown Sisters

Nicholas Nixon‘s The Brown Sisters: Forty Years

CHOIRE SICHA on the stubborn myths of the Hemingway clan

MELANIE REHAK on a novel of Midwestern food and families

HEATHER HAVRILESKY on Atul Gawande’s surprise memento mori best seller

CHRISTOPHER LYON on this summer’s noteworthy art books

ANN FRIEDMAN on a stand-up comic’s advice to the lovelorn

THOMAS BELLER: Thomas Kunkel’s Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker

TONY WOOD: Barry Bergdoll, Carlos Eduardo Comas, Jorge Francisco Liernur, and Patricio del Real’s Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980

CLIVE THOMPSON: Matthew Battles’s Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word

ALEX ABRAMOVICH: William Finnegan’s Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

GAL BECKERMAN: Etgar Keret’s The Seven Good Years: A Memoir

ALBERT MOBILIO: Mark Cohen’s Dark Knees

HOWARD HAMPTON: Diedrich Diederichsen and Bob Nickas’s No Problem: Cologne/New York 1984–1989

BARRY SCHWABSKY: Jeff Nunokawa’s Note Book

NOAH ISENBERG: Andreas Huyssen’s Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film

PRUDENCE PEIFFER: Nancy Princenthal’s Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art

CARL WILSON: Stephen Witt’s How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

JOHANN HARI: Roberto Saviano’s ZeroZeroZero

KATE CHRISTENSEN: Mark Schatzker’s The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor

JACK RAKOVE: David K. Shipler’s Freedom of Speech: Mightier than the Sword

JIM SLEEPER: Fareed Zakaria’s In Defense of a Liberal Education

DAVID V. JOHNSON: Jason Stanley’s How Propaganda Works

SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN: César Hidalgo’s Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies and Jeremy Rifkin’s The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

CHRIS WILSON: Nathaniel Popper’s Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money

CLANCY MARTIN: Ottessa Moshfegh’s Eileen

MELISSA ANDERSON: Fran Ross’s Oreo

JENNY DAVIDSON: Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life

ANDREW HULTKRANS: Joshua Cohen’s Book of Numbers

ERIC BANKS: Aleksandar Hemon’s The Making of Zombie Wars