Not in a Shy Way

TED GIOIA ON THE GENIUS AND SLEAZE OF SINATRA’S WORLD

IX Lives

MELISSA GIRA GRANT ON WHAT’S WRONG WITH HOW WE TALK ABOUT CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT

Taking Liberties

ANDREW HARTMAN ON THE HIDDEN COSTS OF DIGITAL AND CULTURAL EXPOSURE

HEATHER HAVRILESKY on Tucker Max, muse of the bros

MELANIE REHAK on how eating shapes our sense of self

CHOIRE SICHA on the horrible silence at Horace Mann

CHRISTOPHER LYON on this season’s memorable art books

RHONDA LIEBERMAN on Elizabeth Taylor’s gracious sanctum

JEREMY LOTT: Bill Bryson’s The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

ALBERT MOBILIO: Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes

GABY WOOD: Félix Nadar’s When I Was a Photographer

MICHAEL DIRDA: Roger Angell’s This Old Man: All in Pieces

HOWARD HAMPTON: Michael Peppiatt’s Francis Bacon in Your Blood

LUCY ELLMANN: Gloria Steinem’s My Life on the Road

MICHAEL MILLER: Roni Horn: Hack Wit

LIDIJA HAAS: Lisa Yuskavage: The Brood, Paintings 1991–2015

MELISSA ANDERSON: Boyd McDonald’s Cruising the Movies: A Sexual Guide to Oldies on TV

RICHARD GREENWALD: Kathryn S. Olmsted’s Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism

JACK SHAFER: Michael Schudson’s The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 1945–1975

PEDRO NICOLACI DA COSTA: Ben S. Bernanke’s The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath

MICHAEL LIND: Geoffrey M. Hodgson’s Conceptualizing Capitalism: Institutions, Evolution, Future

CHRIS MOODY: Rick Shenkman’s Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics

CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN: Michael D’Antonio’s Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success

MATT HINTON: Gilbert M. Gaul’s Billion-Dollar Ball: A Journey Through the Big-Money Culture of College Football and Diane Roberts’s Tribal: College Football and the Secret Heart of America

CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL: Robert Service’s The End of the Cold War: 1985–1991

KAELEN WILSON-GOLDIE: Elias Khoury’s Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol

ERIC BANKS: Michel Houellebecq’s Submission

LESLIE JAMISON: Mary Gaitskill’s The Mare

MARJORIE PERLOFF: Joseph Roth’s The Hotel Years

JOY WILLIAMS: Lucia Berlin’s A Manual for Cleaning Women

ALBERT MOBILIO: John Wieners’s Stars Seen in Person: Selected Journals and Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners

SARAH NICOLE PRICKETT: Clancy Martin’s Bad Sex