Our guest editors offer their harvest from the latest crop of publications in our 4th annual survey of books, those curious objects that "break the shackles of time". With the help of literary gatekeepers Ben Okri, Hilton Als, Fatima Bhutto and Olga Tokarczuk, we provide valuable intel on the internet’s secret military history, former activist spaces of the Lower East Side, Japanese convenience stores, jholawala economics and the inconsequential obsessions of a woman flying from Berlin to Paris.
