Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage
by Pauli Murray, with an introduction by Patricia Bell-Scott
René Magritte: The Fifth Season
an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 19–October 28, 2018
Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
by Siva Vaidhyanathan
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
by Jaron Lanier
Jacques Becker
a series of films at Film Forum, New York City, August 1–16, 2018
The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison “Promiscuous” Women
by Scott Wasserman Stern
Berlin Alexanderplatz
by Alfred Döblin, translated from the German and with an afterword by Michael Hofmann
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
by Simon Winchester
Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
by Stacy Horn
Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity
by Theodore M. Porter
No One Cares About Crazy People: My Family and the Heartbreak of Mental Illness in America
by Ron Powers
Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
by Alisa Roth
Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution
by Ben Fountain
Behold, America: The Entangled History of “America First” and “The American Dream”
by Sarah Churchwell
Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
by James Q. Whitman
Readers write in about Jian Ghomeshi’s article in the October 10, 2018 issue