Issue:

Diva Nation: Female Icons from Japanese Cultural History
Ed. by Laura Miller; Rebecca Copeland University of California Press

Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Sonia Shah Farrar, Straus and Giroux

A History of Discriminated Buraku Communities in Japan
Nobuaki Teraki; Midori Kurokawa; trans. by Ian Neary Renaissance Books