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The Powers of Dr. Johnson

Samuel Johnson: A Biography

by Peter Martin

Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

edited by Peter Martin

Samuel Johnson: The Struggle

by Jeffrey Meyers

Samuel Johnson: A Life

by David Nokes


Pixar Genius

WALL·E

a film by Pixar Animation Studios

The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company

by David A. Price

To Infinity and Beyond! The Story of Pixar Animation Studios

by Karen Paik, based on research and interviews by Leslie Iwerks, with a foreword by John Lasseter, Steve Jobs, and Ed Catmull

The Art of Pixar Short Films

by Amid Amidi, with a foreword by John Lasseter


Why Art?

Art Without Borders: A Philosophical Exploration of Art and Humanity

by Ben-Ami Scharfstein

The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution

by Denis Dutton


The Witchcraft of Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson, with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem


The Double Life & Its Dangers

The Confessions of Edward Day

by Valerie Martin


The Anarchy of Success

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

by Leonard Mlodinow


Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

by Ha-Joon Chang



The Price of Paradise

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

by Greg Grandin


Blood on the Border

Imperial

by William T. Vollmann

Imperial

photographs by William T. Vollmann


Mary McCarthy’s Room

A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx

by Elaine Showalter


Right and Wrong: Psychologists vs. Philosophers

Experiments in Ethics

by Kwame Anthony Appiah


The Afghanistan Impasse

To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan

by Nicholas Schmidle

Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda

by Gretchen Peters

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