GENE SEYMOUR: The Collected Novels of Charles Wright: The Messenger, The Wig, and Absolutely Nothing to Get Alarmed About
SAM MCKINNISS: Peter McGough’s I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Going: The Art Scene and Downtown New York in the 1980s
SARAH RESNICK: Anne Boyer’s The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
ROBERT CHRISTGAU: Nicholas Lemann’s Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream
JORDAN LARSON: Jenny Brown’s Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work and Sophie Lewis’s Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family
MICHAEL ROBBINS: Richard Preston’s Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come and David Quammen’s Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus
MALCOLM HARRIS: Daniel Markovits’s The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite