Daniel Mendelsohn casts an eye at literature, film, television, and the personal essay in Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones. Nan All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf, otè Katharine Smyth braids memoir, literary criticism, and biography. Jess Row’pa White Flights, featuring seven wide-ranging, erudite, and impassioned essays, offers a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture.