Purity of the Heart Is to Follow One Thing JUSTIN TAYLOR on the emo existentialism of Søren Kierkegaard
SAM HUBER: Maggie Doherty’s The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s
CARL WILSON: Grace Elizabeth Hale’s Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture
JULIANA HALPERT: Murals of New York City: The Best of New York’s Public Paintings from Bemelmans to Parrish
JESSE BARRON: Barton Gellman’s Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State and Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge’s Snowden’s Box: Trust in the Age of Surveillance
ELIAS RODRIQUES: Walter Johnson’s The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States