Where to find past issues of Slate’s monthly books section.

Looking for previous issues of the Slate Book Review? Here are links to every issue since our launch in March 2012.

December 2012: The best books of 2012; Julia Turner on whether handwriting is worth saving; Geeta Dayal on programming; Paul Ford on the Authentocracy; Chris Gethard on the Smiths; Jenny Hendrix on Evelyn Waugh; Hua Hsu on why we call everything "interesting"; a term paper assignment from Kurt Vonnegut. Illustrations by Lilli Carré.
---

November 2012: Choire Sicha on Ursula K. Le Guin; Michelle Dean on Barbara Kingsolver; Dahlia Lithwick on William Rehnquist; Mark O’Connell on James Wood; Jessica Roake suggests a replacement for Catcher in the Rye; Dan Kois reviews a 1997 Clueless spin-off novel. Illustrations by Noah Van Sciver.
---

October 2012: Matthew Yglesias on Nate Silver; Doree Shafrir on the death of pets; Simon Reynolds on culture's remix obsession; Noah Gallagher Shannon on Cormac McCarthy's first drafts; Dan Savage on Merle Miller; Dan Kois on The Casual Vacancy; Alex Balk on being an asshole. Illustrations by Laura Terry.
---

September 2012: Mark O'Connell on D.T. Max's DFW bio; Karina Longworth on Ellen Willis; Troy Patterson on Michael Chabon; Jessica Pressler on Molly Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy; Emily Bazelon on Jonathan Kozol; Dan Kois on football books. Illustrations by Bianca Stone.
---

August 2012: Jacob Silverman on critics and Twitter; Troy Patterson on stop-smoking books; Emily Yoffe on teens and sex; John Lingan on Elvis Costello's hidden memoir; Patricia Lockwood writes a poem about slam-dunking. Illustrations by Sean Ford.
---

July 2012: Michelle Dean on Sheila Heti; Campbell Robertson on Joe Sacco; Emily Yoffe on Gigi Levangie Grazer; Uzodmina Iweala on Kojo Laing; the Audio Book Club reads Fifty Shades of Grey. Illustrations by Matt Kindt.
---

June 2012: Fred Kaplan on Robert Caro; Dan Kois on John Lanchester; Sady Doyle on Looking for Mr. Goodbar; Farhad Manjoo on iPad apps for kids; Moe Tkacik on Washington Mutual. Illustrations by Dan Zettwoch.
---

May 2012: Lindy West on Breasts: A History; Choire Sicha on Gideon Lewis-Kraus and Tom Bissell; Meghan O’Rourke on Allison Bechdel; William Georgiades on Hillary Mantel; Dan Kois on a self-published novel of an epically bad love affair. Illustrations by Nick Pitarra.
---

April 2012: Jennifer Szalai on sex and the office; Dave Tompkins on Bell Labs; Emily Bazelon on Rachel Maddow; Art Spiegelman on Garbage Pail Kids; Joseph O’Neill on Nescio. Illustrations by Pat Grant.
---

March 2012: Debut issue! Allison Benedikt on What to Expect When You’re Expecting; Paul Ford on Why Have Children?; Melanie Rehak on Cheryl Strayed; Troy Patterson on John Leonard; David Plotz on Elephant and Piggie. Illustrations by Derf Backderf.