JESSICA HOPPER: Joe Hagan’s Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
SUZY HANSEN: Leslie Peirce’s Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire
ALICE KAPLAN: Justin Spring’s The Gourmands’ Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy
CLANCY MARTIN: Kevin Young’s Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN: Richard Lloyd Parry’s Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone
CHARLOTTE SHANE: Henry Jay Przybylo’s Counting Backwards: A Doctor’s Notes on Anesthesia, Kate Cole-Adams’s Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness, and Adrian Owen’s Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death