The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929–1960 edited by Mary Lago, Linda K. Hughes, and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, with a foreword by P.N. Furbank
J.M.W. Turner an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., October 1, 2007–January 6, 2008; the Dallas Museum of Art, February 10–May 18, 2008; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 24–September 21, 2008
For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond
For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond by Ben Macintyre
Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks, writing as Ian Fleming
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
ZigZag: The Incredible Wartime Exploits of Double Agent Eddie Chapman by Nicholas Booth
The Spy Within: Larry Chin and China’s Penetration of the CIA by Tod Hoffman
Jia: A Novel of North Korea by Hyejin Kim
North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea by Andrei Lankov
A Corpse in the Koryo by James Church
Hidden Moon by James Church
Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World’s Most Repressive Country by Mike Kim
Breath by Tim Winton
Dark Matter a film directed by Chen Shi-Zheng
Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895–2008 by Xu Guoqi
China’s New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society by Daniel A. Bell
China’s New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy by Peter Hays Gries
China’s Great Leap: The Beijing Olympic Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges Edited by Minky Worden, with an introduction by Nicholas Kristof
Rembrandt’s Jews by Steven Nadler
De “joodse” Rembrandt: De mythe ontrafeld [The “Jewish” Rembrandt: The Myth Revealed] an exhibition at the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, November 10, 2006–February 4, 2007.
Rembrandt in de propaganda 1940–1945
Catastrophe! The Looting and Destruction of Iraq’s Past an exhibition at the Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago, April 10-December 31, 2008.
The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq edited by Peter G. Stone and Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly
Antiquities Under Siege: Cultural Heritage Protection After the Iraq War edited by Lawrence Rothfield
Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq by Patrick Cockburn
Reclaiming a Plundered Past: Archaeology and Nation Building in Modern Iraq by Magnus T. Bernhardsson
The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Epic of Gilgamesh by David Damrosch
American Hostage by Micah Garen and Marie-Hélène Carleton
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester
Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry
Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population by Matthew Connelly
Reproducing Inequities: Poverty and the Politics of Population in Haiti by M. Catherine Maternowska, with a foreword by Paul Farmer
Us vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America’s Security by J. Peter Scoblic
Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats by Matthew Yglesias