Nonfiction
·Erasmus and the Age of Reformation
book by Johan Huizinga
reviewed by Susannah Rutherglen
·The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi:
The World's Most Astonishing Number
book by Mario Livio
reviewed by Christopher Grobe
·The Great Tax Wars:
From Lincoln to T.R. to Wilson:
How the Income Tax Transformed America
book by Steven Weismann
reviewed by Susannah Camic
·So What: The Life of Miles Davis
book by John Szwed
reviewed by Tom Isler
·Jazz Modernism
from Ellington and Armstrong
to Matisse and Joyce
book by Alfred Appel Jr.
reviewed by Jessica Tanenbaum
·In Ruins
book by Christopher Woodward
reviewed by Andrew Kau
·Why Orwell Matters
book by Christopher Hitchens
reviewed by Alex Lee
·American Studies
book by Louis Menand
reviewed by Thomas Cannell
·The Rage and the Pride
book by Oriana Fallaci
reviewed by James Kirchick
·Step Across This Line:
Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
book by Salman Rushdie
reviewed by Michael Obernauer

Fiction
·The Cave
book by Jose Saramago
reviewed by Paige Austin
·Three Junes
book by Julia Glass
reviewed by Daniel Barrett
·Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:
A New Verse Translation
translated by W.S. Merwin
reviewed by James Coleman
·The Seven Sisters
book by Margaret Drabble
reviewed by Marisa Knox
·The Little Friend
book by Donna Tartt
reviewed by Sonja Ostrow
·Cloud of Sparrows
book by Takashi Matsuoka
reviewed by Su Mon Han

Features
·Letter to an Undergraduate
from Annabel Patterson
·Profs' Picks
·can't judge a cover by its book
by Lucas Hanft
·How to Like Poetry and Why
by Allie Stielau
·Surreality TV
by Raina Lipsitz
·Finis
by Elizabeth Archibald