Ways of Seeing CHRISTOPHER SORRENTINO ON VIVIAN GORNICK’S CHANGING RESPONSES TO THE BOOKS THAT SHAPED HER
Henry James and Pigs’ Feet GENE SEYMOUR ON HOW RALPH ELLISON’S LETTERS FULFILL HIS GREAT FIRST NOVEL’S PROMISE
ALBERT MOBILIO: Pittura / Panorama: Paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, 1952–1992 and Helen Frankenthaler: Sea Change: A Decade of Paintings, 1974–1983
MAGGIE DOHERTY: Saskia Hamilton’s The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle
SARAH JAFFE: Daniel Susskind’s A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
NATASHA LENNARD: Lida Maxwell’s Insurgent Truth: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Outsider Truth-Telling
RICHARD BECK: George Packer’s Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, Samantha Power’s The Education of an Idealist, and Andrew J. Bacevich’s The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN: Ross Douthat’s The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success