Bech at Bay: A Quasi-Novel

by John Updike

Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World

by James Chace

Monet in the 20th Century

an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 20-December 27, 1998, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 23-April 18, 1999

Monet in the 20th Century

Catalog of the exhibition by Paul Hayes Tucker, with George T.M. Shackelford and MaryAnne Stevens, and essays by Romy Golan and John House and Michael Leja

Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin

by Alexandra Richie

Capital Dilemma: Germany's Search for a New Architecture of Democracy

by Michael Z. Wise

Threads of Time: Recollections

by Peter Brook

Turnaround: How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic

by William Bratton, with Peter Knobler

Getting Away With Murder: How Politics Is Destroying the Criminal Justice System

by Susan Estrich

Politics, Punishment, and Populism

by Lord Windlesham

Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance

by Aileen M. Kelly

The Last Word

by Thomas Nagel

Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962

by Doris Lessing

Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

by Anne Carson

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion

by Edward J. Larson

James Baldwin: Collected Essays