A House Dividing

DANIEL WALKER HOWE on The Civil War: The First Year

Madame Bovary, C’est Toi!

RIVKA GALCHEN on Lydia Davis’s translation of Madame Bovary

The Don of Delhi

KARAN MAHAJAN on William Dalrymple’s India

MICHAEL GREENBERG on ruinous jealousy

EILEEN MYLES on book tours

MELANIE REHAK on a memoir of eating in Baghdad and Beirut

PAUL LA FARGE: Kevin Brockmeier’s The Illumination

ED PARK: Jonathan Coe’s The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim

MINNA PROCTOR: Paula Bomer’s Baby & Other Stories

BRIAN EVENSON: Justin Taylor’s The Gospel of Anarchy

SARAH L. COURTEAU: Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!

ERIK DAVIS: Robert Duncan’s The H.D. Book

ROBERT POLITO: Nigel Smith‘s Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon

ALBERT MOBILIO: Brooke Kamin Rapaport’s Houdini: Art and Magic

TIMOTHY FARRINGTON: Patrick Leigh Fermor’s The Traveller’s Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands

CRAIG MORGAN TEICHER: Kevin Young’s Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels

ELIZABETH ALSOP: Rebecca Messbarger’s The Lady Anatomist: The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini

ANNA HARTFORD: James Attlee’s Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight

ETHAN PORTER: Ron Rosenbaum’s How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III

RUTH FRANKLIN: Joyce Carol Oates‘s A Widow’s Story

JACOB HEILBRUNN: Irving Kristol‘s The Neoconservative Persuasion: Selected Essays, 1942–2009

CHARLES SEIFE: Brian Greene‘s The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

ANTHONY GRAFTON: David Wootton‘s Galileo: Watcher of the Skies and J. L. Heilbron‘s Galileo

DAVID REES: Darryl Cunningham‘s Psychiatric Tales: Eleven Graphic Stories About Mental Illness

CLAY RISEN: Jane McGonigal‘s Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

GENE SEYMOUR: Richard Pells’s Modernist America: Art, Music, Movies, & the Globalization of American Culture

DAVID MULCAHEY: Bradford Martin‘s The Other Eighties: A Secret History of America in the Age of Reagan and David Sirota‘s Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now—Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything

BEN SCHWARTZ: Michael Palin’s Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980–1988

KEN SILVERSTEIN on the literature of WikiLeaks

MICHAEL DIRDA: Bruce Chatwin’s Under the Sun

ADINA HOFFMAN: James Carroll’s Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World

JONATHAN SHAININ: Doug Saunders’s Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World

CHRISTOPHER SORRENTINO: Deb Olin Unferth’s Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War

GRAEME WOOD: Mario Vargas Llosa’s El sueño del celta