Prescribing a Remedy

Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalists Donald Barlett and James Steele criticize the state of America’s health-care system in Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business--and Bad Medicine. Next up, Senegalese writer and director Ousmane Sembene. He’s considered one of the most influential filmmakers in sub-Saharan Africa. Then, Ron Nyswaner, author of the screenplay for Philadelphia. His memoir explores a passionate, tumultuous gay love affair in Blue Days, Black Nights. Finally, Russell Banks shares his new novel, The Darling. The book’s narrator reflects back on the radicalism of her personal and political life as she fled the FBI and moved to West Africa because of her involvement with the Weather Underground.