Crossings to Bear RACHEL MONROE ON FRANCISCO CANTÚ’S FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF WORKING FOR THE BORDER PATROL
JAMES CAMP: Martin Amis’s The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1994–2017
JAMES HANNAHAM: David Peisner’s Homey Don’t Play That! The Story of In Living Color and the Black Comedy Revolution
BEN KAFKA: Lauren Slater’s Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds
PATRICK BLANCHFIELD: Patrick Sharkey’s Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence
ANDREW MEIER: Steve Coll’s Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001–2016
CHARLOTTE SHANE: Caitlin Doughty’s From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, Daniela Lamas’s You Can Stop Humming Now: A Doctor’s Stories of Life, Death, and in Between, and Kathryn Mannix’s With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial