CRISTINA NEHRING: Jules Howard’s Death on Earth: Adventures in Evolution and Mortality, Katie Roiphe’s The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End, Oliver Sacks’s Gratitude, Michael Kinsley’s Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide, and Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air
ALLEN BARRA: Matt Houlbrook’s Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook
BRUCE BARTLETT: Jeff Nesbit’s Poison Tea: How Big Oil and Big Tobacco Invented the Tea Party and Captured the GOP and Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson’s American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper
THOMAS CHATTERTON WILLIAMS: Carol Anderson’s White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide and Robert P. Jones’s The End of White Christian America
