Bearing Witness

JABARI ASIM ON NEW BOOKS ABOUT RACE IN AMERICA

Maidan Voyage

WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN ON POST-SOVIET UKRAINE

Open Secret

PRUDENCE PEIFFER ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF DIANE ARBUS

MELANIE REHAK on Anthony Bourdain’s brash cookbook

TOM CARSON on Joe Conason’s biography of Bill Clinton

HEATHER HAVRILESKY on the wisdom of bitchiness

KAITLIN PHILLIPS on Tama Janowitz’s unglamorous self-portrait

CHRISTOPHER LYON on the season’s art books

KATE BOLICK: Ruth Franklin’s Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

BENJAMIN ANASTAS: Javier Marías’s Thus Bad Begins

KAITLIN PHILLIPS: Nell Zink’s Nicotine

SARAH NICOLE PRICKETT: Jade Sharma’s Problems

STEVEN G. KELLMAN: Rabih Alameddine’s The Angel of History

GERALD HOWARD: Iris Murdoch’s The Sea, the Sea; A Severed Head

JOHANNA FATEMAN: Lynn Hershman Leeson: Civic Radar

SIMON REYNOLDS: Tim Lawrence’s Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980–1983

LAURA KIPNIS: Kristin Dombek’s The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism

ERIC BANKS: Frances Wilson’s Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey

ALBERT MOBILIO: Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen

NOAH ISENBERG: Stuart Jeffries’s Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School

LIDIJA HAAS: Emily Witt’s Future Sex

GIDEON LEWIS-KRAUS: Mark Greif’s The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973 and Against Everything: Essays

SUSAN CHOI: Jeffrey Toobin’s American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst

JOY WILLIAMS: Sue Klebold’s A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

J. HOBERMAN: Charles Musser’s Politicking and Emergent Media: US Presidential Elections of the 1890s

ALBERT MOBILIO: Nicholson Baker’s Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids

KAELEN WILSON-GOLDIE: Robert F. Worth’s A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS

MARC EDWARD HOFFMAN: Ece Temelkuran’s Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy

KAREN OLSSON: Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

JESSE BARRON: Cody Wilson’s Come and Take It: The Gun Printer’s Guide to Thinking Free

JEDEDIAH PURDY: Jason Brennan’s Against Democracy

GENE SEYMOUR on problems with our presidential-campaign coverage