Anne Rophie’s Art and Madness, Millicent Monk’s Songs of Three Islands, Maisie Houghton’s Pitch Uncertain.

Rita Dove’s Penguin Anthology of 20th Century Poetry.

Out of the Vinyl Deeps catalogs Ellen Willis’s pop years.

Bettany Hughes’s biography of Socrates is a book that Socrates himself, on a mean day, would have torn to shreds.

Jane Campion reconsidered.

On Reza Aslan’s Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East.