JOHN L. ALLEN JR. on What Happened at Vatican II by John W. O’Malley
DOUGLAS PORCH on Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq by Peter R. Mansoor
TIM JEAL on The End of the Game: The Last Word from Paradise by Peter Beard
JENNIFER HOWARD on Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart by Tim Butcher
JABARI ASIM on God and Race in American Politics: A Short History by Mark A. Noll
PETER TERZIAN on Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
TREVOR BUTTERWORTH on The Ethics of the Lie by Jean-Michel Rabaté
JEFF STEIN on The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service by Andrew Meier
MICHAEL FAMIGHETTI on The Memory of Pablo Escobar by James Mollison
MICHAEL O’DONNELL on The Invisible Constitution by Laurence H. Tribe
GEOFF NICHOLSON on Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt
ALBERT MOBILIO on The Circus, 1870–1950 edited by Noel Daniel
JOSCELYN JURICH on The Jive Talker: An Artist’s Genesis by Samson Kambalu
MARTHA SCHWENDENER on Lives of the Artists by Calvin Tomkins
YONA ZELDIS MCDONOUGH on Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
SCOTT BRADFIELD on The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British by Sarah Lyall