Shuffle Along, or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed
a musical written and directed by George C. Wolfe, with songs by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, at the Music Box Theatre, New York City, opened on April 28, 2016
Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, April 18–July 17, 2016
The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East
by Marc Lynch
ISIS: A History
by Fawaz A. Gerges
Consequence: A Memoir
by Eric Fair
The Mirror Test: America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan
by J. Kael Weston
Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism
by Judy Wajcman
Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age
by Bernard E. Harcourt
Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art
by Virginia Heffernan
Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media
by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Mood and Mobility: Navigating the Emotional Spaces of Digital Social Networks
by Richard Coyne
Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up
by Philip N. Howard
Germaine de Staël: A Political Portrait
by Biancamaria Fontana
Once and for All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz
edited by Craig Morgan Teicher and with an introduction by John Ashbery
Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide
by Charles Foster
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
by Frans de Waal
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
by Jonathan Balcombe
Engines of Liberty: The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law
by David Cole
Looking at Pictures
by Robert Walser, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky, with additional translations by Lydia Davis and Christopher Middleton
Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux
three operas by Gaetano Donizetti, directed by David McVicar, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, 2015–2016 season
“Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
by Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf
Alexander Yakovlev: The Man Whose Ideas Delivered Russia from Communism
by Richard Pipes
Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry
by Paul Celan, translated from the German and with commentary by Pierre Joris
Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City
by Leslie Day, with illustrations by Trudy Smoke, photographs by Beth Bergman, and a foreword by Don Riepe
Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind
by George Makari
The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
by A.C. Grayling
The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939–1945
by Max Hastings
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
by Thomas W. Laqueur
Farewell to the World: A History of Suicide
by Marzio Barbagli, translated from the Italian by Lucinda Byatt
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
by Ronald Blythe, with an introduction by Matt Weiland
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
by Roger Crowley
The Global City: On the Streets of Renaissance Lisbon
edited by Annemarie Jordan Gschwend and K.J.P. Lowe
Kongo: Power and Majesty
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, September 18, 2015–January 3, 2016
Leonard Peltier is in very bad health and is a threat to no one. If President Obama does not free him, he will likely die in jail.
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