New & Notable Nonfiction: June 2012

by Gail Collins

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by P.D. Smith

As exciting, sprawling and multifarious as a shining city on a hill. Full review >

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by Amanda Bennett

A moving, beautifully written chronicle of true love and a clarion call for health-care reform. Full review >

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by Rebecca Stott

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by Chris Hedges & illustrated by Joe Sacco

A call for a new American revolution, passionately proclaimed. Full review >

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by Kristen Iversen

Superbly crafted tale of Cold War America’s dark underside. Full review >

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by Siri Hustvedt

At once stimulating and warmhearted, with sentences of drop-dead beauty and acuity on nearly every page. Full review >

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by Jill Lepore

A superb examination of the never-ending effort to enhance life, as well as the commensurate refusal to ever let it go. Full review >

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by Joseph E. Stiglitz

An impassioned argument backed by rigorous economic analysis. Full review >

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by Andrew Blum

A fascinating and unique portrait of the Internet not as "a physical world or a virtual world, but a human world." Full review >

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by Christopher L. Hayes

A provocative discussion of the deeper causes of our current discontent, written with verve and meriting wide interest. Full review >

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by Andrew Blackwell

In each chapter, Blackwell finds he loves the polluted places for all the ways they aren’t ruined. With great verve, and... Full review >

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by Frank Partnoy

A fascinating addition to the study of decision-making. File alongside Malcolm Gladwell, Dan Ariely and other similar... Full review >

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by Mark Twain & edited by R. Kent Rasmussen

A compact, generous entry into the comic sensibility of a thoughtful, adventurous life. Full review >

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by David Maraniss

Maraniss stresses that Obama’s Muslim ancestors encompass only one facet to his complex, fascinating makeup. Another in the... Full review >

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by Dan Ariely

Ariely writes in a conversational tone one might associate with a popular teacher, providing readers with a working... Full review >

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by Kirk Douglas

An entertaining and informative look at the troubled gestation of a film of both artistic and social significance. Full review >

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by Antony Beevor

A work of vast research, depth and insight—perhaps too vast for some readers. Full review >

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by Larry Tye

Fun, enlightening pop-culture history. Full review >

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