SASHA FRERE-JONES: Tessa Norton and Bob Stanley’s Excavate!: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall and Bob Nickas’s Slang King: M. E. S. on Stage: 1977–2013
MAX FOX: Anna Lvovsky’s Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall
NATHAN GOLDMAN: Daniel K. L. Chua and Alexander Rehding’s Alien Listening: Voyager’s Golden Record and Music from Earth
SARAH BOXER: Philip Larratt-Smith’s Louise Bourgeois, Freud’s Daughter, and Mika Yoshitake and Joanna L. Groarke’s Kusama: Cosmic Nature
NATASHA LENNARD: Harsha Walia’s Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism