THE POWER OF URBAN SOLITUDE: a writer weaves her memories together with iconic artworks on city loneliness. A MINUS

LONELY CITY: ADVENTURES IN THE ART OF BEING ALONE
Picador USA
2016

THE RITUALS OF DEATH, considered across history and around the world: thorough research, poetic voice. A MINUS

DEATH’S SUMMER COAT
Pegasus Books
2016

THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS and science, elegantly explored in a concise meditation on Euclid’s “Elements”.

POET/CULTURAL CRITIC Wayne Koestenbaum’s meditations on the Big Idea of “humiliation” are quirky, fascinating.

THOUGHTFUL, ELOQUENT, MORALLY complex look at a murder trial; sobering, and exactly opposite to sensationalism.