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A Royal Mystery

The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette

by Chantal Thomas, translated from the French by Julie Rose

Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France

by Evelyne Lever, translated from the French by Catherine Temerson


Back to the Future

The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites

by Elizabeth Prettejohn


Cri de Coeur

Book Business: Publishing Past Present and Future

by Jason Epstein


Life Among the Anthros

Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon

by Patrick Tierney


The Truth About Tiananmen

“The man who tells the truth about what really happened in Beijing will rule China.”

The Tiananmen Papers

compiled by Zhang Liang, edited by Andrew J. Nathan and Perry Link, and with an afterword by Orville Schell


Caught in the Curve

Hooking Up

by Tom Wolfe


The Land of Accidents

White Teeth

by Zadie Smith


Not Quite All That Jazz

Jazz

by Ken Burns

Jazz: A History of America's Music

by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns

Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz 1954–2000

by Whitney Balliett


The Double Life of W.E.B. Du Bois

W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963

by David Levering Lewis


Joyce in Bloom

La nostra bella Trieste! I have often said that angrily but tonight I feel it true. I long to see the lights twinkling along the riva as the train passes [the castle of] Miramar. After all, Nora, it is the city which has sheltered us.”

The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste, 1904–1920

by John McCourt


The First American Epic

The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

edited by Gary E. Moulton


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