The Darkness Show

JEFF SHARLET: THE FIRE THIS TIME

Freedom Fighter

CHRIS WILSON ON AARON SWARTZ’S LIFE AND TIMES

Everyday Terror

KAELEN WILSON-GOLDIE: THE BEIRUT BATTLEGROUND

Facing the Unknown Peril

ARTHUR GOLDHAMMER: PARIS ON EDGE

Technically, a Utopia

SARAH LEONARD ON SILICON VALLEY AND THE FEMINIST FUTURE

LIDIJA HAAS on the life-changing magic of hoarding

CHRISTOPHER LYON on recent art books of note

MELANIE REHAK on cooking in Koreatown

CHOIRE SICHA on the Fat Jew’s zeitgeist

HEATHER HAVRILESKY on Nicholas Sparks, incurable romantic

JUSTIN TAYLOR: Dana Spiotta’s Innocents and Others

CHRISTINE SMALLWOOD: New American Stories; The Unprofessionals: New American Writing from the Paris Review; 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories

JAMES CAMP: Christopher Sorrentino’s The Fugitives

GENE SEYMOUR: Charles Beaumont’s Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories

SARAH NICOLE PRICKETT: Tony Tulathimutte’s Private Citizens

LINDSAY ZOLADZ: Melissa Broder’s So Sad Today: Personal Essays

LIDIJA HAAS: Wynne Greenwood: Stacy . . . Kelly

ALBERT MOBILIO: Paper Airplanes: The Collections of Harry Smith, Catalogue Raisonné, Volume I and String Figures: The Collections of Harry Smith, Catalogue Raisonné, Volume II

ALBERT MOBILIO: Emily Braun’s Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting

MICHELLE ORANGE: Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Other Words

DAVID O’NEILL: Ben Ratliff’s Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty

MARY GAITSKILL: Vladimir Nabokov’s Letters to Véra

PRUDENCE PEIFFER: William Eggleston’s The Democratic Forest

LAURA KIPNIS: A. O. Scott’s Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth

A. S. HAMRAH: Dennis Lim’s David Lynch: The Man from Another Place

JESSE BARRON: David Shields’s War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict

DAVID KUSNET: David Greenberg’s Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency

CHARLES PETERSEN: Gary Gerstle’s Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present

TOM CARSON: John Mack Faragher’s Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles

ALEX PAREENE: McKay Coppins’s The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party’s Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House

JAKE LAMAR: Michael Eric Dyson’s The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America and Eddie S. Glaude Jr.’s Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul