Commuter Literate

Matthew Price on John Cheever

The New Geography

A Roundtable

Nobody’s Everyman

Richard Ford on Frank Bascombe

Leslie Savan on catalog shopping

The Great Gatsby and The Informers

Bookforum talks with Geoff Dyer

Victor LaValle on the end of black nationalism

Joe McCulloch on A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi

Chris Rasmussen on Seaway to the Future: American Social Visions and the Construction of the Panama Canal by Alexander Missal and The Canal Builders: Making America’s Empire at the Panama Canal by Julie Greene

David Mulcahey on Nice Work if You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times by Andrew Ross

Matthew Yglesias on The Godfather Doctrine: A Foreign Policy Parable by John C. Hulsman and A. Wess Mitchell and The Myth of American Exceptionalism by Godfrey Hodgson

Chris Lehmann on The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America by William Kleinknecht

Choire Sicha on The Age of Anxiety: A History of America’s Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers by Andrea Tone

Mark Kingwell on The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self by Thomas Metzinger and Why Us? How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves by James Le Fanu

Martin Puchner on Logics of Worlds, Conditions, and The Meaning of Sarkozy by Alain Badiou

Peter Manseau on When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

Linda Nochlin on The Journals of Grace Hartigan, 1951–1955 edited by William T. La Moy and Joseph P. McCaffrey

Laura Frost on Gypsy: The Art of the Tease by Rachel Shteir and Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee by Noralee Frankel

Mark Caldwell on Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York by Donna Dennis

Ben Schwartz on The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics by Denis Kitchen and Paul Buhle and Humbug by Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis, Will Elder, Al Jaffee, and Arnold Roth

Erkki Huhtamo on White Heat Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960–1980 edited by Paul Brown, Charlie Gere, Nicholas Lambert, and Catherine Mason

Ben Kafka on Franz Kafka: The Office Writings edited by Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg, and Benno Wagner

Greg Bottoms on Painting a Hidden Life: The Art of Bill Traylor by Mechal Sobel

Polly Shulman on Kitchen Essays by Agnes Jekyll

Albert Mobilio on Lance Letscher: Collage

Mark Lamster on A Terrible Splendor: Three Extraordinary Men, A World Poised for War, and the Greatest Tennis Match Ever Played by Marshall Jon Fisher

Timothy Hodler on The Bun Field by Amanda Vähämäki

Nicole Rudick on Kandinsky edited by Helmut Friedel and Annegret Hoberg

Irene Gammel on The Passive Vampire by Ghérasim Luca

Nicole Rudick on Beasts! Book One and Beasts! Book Two edited by Jacob Covey

Wesley Yang on What Are Intellectuals Good For? by George Scialabba

Marjorie Perloff on House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh

Peter Gay on Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century by Jenny Davidson

William Giraldi on Laish by Aharon Appelfeld

Eric Banks on Waveland by Frederick Barthelme

James Gibbons on The Shanghai Gesture by Gary Indiana

Joseph Donahue on The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems by Agha Shahid Ali

John Freeman on Leaving Tangier by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Noah Isenberg on Shadow and Light by Jonathan Rabb

Sandra Newman on A Fortunate Age by Joanna Smith Rakoff

Greil Marcus on Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead

Jed Lipinski on Unplugging Philco by Jim Knipfel

Thomas Israel Hopkins on Pandora in the Congo by Albert Sánchez Piñol

Colin Fleming on The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet by Reif Larsen

Kevin Canfield on Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower

Zoë Slutzky on All the Living by C. E. Morgan

Laura Stokes on Castle by J. Robert Lennon

Noah Eli Gordon on The Sound Mirror by Andrew Joron

Matthew Ladd on In the United States of Africa by Abdourahman A. Waberi

Tim Griffin on Versed by Rae Armantrout

Paul Grimstad on Lucretius’s De rerum natura