A View of Her Own

SARAH NICOLE PRICKETT ON THE ESSAYS OF ELIZABETH HARDWICK

Camera Obscura

LUCY SANTE ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF STREET PHOTOGRAPHER VIVIAN MAIER

Hard Time

CHASE MADAR ON CRIME AND JUSTICE IN BLACK AMERICA

Why Do They Do It?

ANAND GOPAL ON TWO STUDIES OF THE ISLAMIC STATE

O Cousin, Where Art Thou?

JABARI ASIM ON A MEMOIR ABOUT FAMILY AND THE PRISON SYSTEM

CHARLOTTE SHANE on high-end couples therapist Esther Perel

MELANIE REHAK on the making of Chez Panisse

TOM CARSON on an Obama speechwriter’s comic memoir

BOOKFORUM CONTRIBUTORS on this season’s notable art books

RHONDA LIEBERMAN on Lauren Greenfield’s chronicle of wealth and dysfunction

CHRISTOPHER LYON: Deborah Wye’s Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait

ALBERT MOBILIO: California Infernal: Anton LaVey & Jayne Mansfield as Portrayed by Walter Fischer

ALEX FIALHO: Lyle Ashton Harris: Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs; Selections from the Ektachrome Archive

KATE SUTTON: Katherine Bernhardt

JULIAN ROSE: Frank Lloyd Wright: Unpacking the Archive

ISABEL FLOWER: Shantrelle P. Lewis’s Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style

RAHEL AIMA: Ellen Ullman’s Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

GEOFFREY GRAY: Maria Sharapova’s Unstoppable: My Life So Far

CRAIG MORGAN TEICHER: Daniel Mendelsohn’s An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

NOAH ISENBERG: David Thomson’s Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio

MELISSA BRODER: Eileen Myles’s Afterglow (a dog memoir)

CARL WILSON: David Yaffe’s Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell

A. S. HAMRAH: Werner Herzog’s Scenarios: Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Every Man for Himself and God Against All; Land of Silence and Darkness; Fitzcarraldo

LAURA KIPNIS: Andrew O’Hagan’s The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age

ATOSSA ARAXIA ABRAHAMIAN: Kapka Kassabova’s Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

PANKAJ MISHRA: Miłosz by Andrzej Franaszek

NAMARA SMITH: Suzy Hansen’s Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

SEAN GUILLORY: Masha Gessen’s The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

EMMETT RENSIN: Malcolm Harris’s Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials

BECCA ROTHFELD: Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

MELISSA ANDERSON: Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach

MARC EDWARD HOFFMAN: Orhan Pamuk’s The Red-Haired Woman

DAVID LAU: Jorie Graham’s Fast

POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR: Leonora Carrington’s Down Below and The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington

JUSTIN TAYLOR: Jenny Zhang’s Sour Heart

SASHA FRERE-JONES: Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing

CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN: Richard Stern’s Other Men’s Daughters

JAMES CAMP: Jonathan Dee’s The Locals