David Sedaris, Calypso: ( essays )
Claudia Rankine, Just Us: ( whiteness and power )
Janelle Shane, You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: ( Artificial intelligence and weirdness )

Amy Stanley, Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World: ( now for something completely different )
Sarah A. Seo, Policing the Open Road: ( cars and police power )
Alexis Coe, You Never Forget Your First: ( Geo. Washington )
J.D. Dickey, Empire of Mud: ( Washington, DC )
Slavery’s Capitalism, ed. Sven Beckert: ( more essays )