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A Hero of Our Time

The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein

by Martin Duberman


Bush’s Amazing Achievement

Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

by Chalmers Johnson

Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower

by Zbigniew Brzezinski

Statecraft and How to Restore America's Standing in the World

by Dennis Ross


Meshuga Alaska

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

by Michael Chabon


His Inner Cat

Nearly a century after George Herriman started Krazy Kat, the endlessly perplexing, energetic, deep, and playful comic strip still feels new.

Krazy & Ignatz: The Complete Full-Page Comic Strips

by George Herriman, edited and annotated by Bill Blackbeard, designed by Chris Ware

Masters of American Comics

exhibition catalog edited by John Carlin, Paul Karasik, and Brian Walker

Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium

edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester

Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman

by Patrick McDonnell, Karen O'Connell, and Georgia Riley De Havenon


When in Rome

Satyr Square: A Year, a Life in Rome

by Leonard Barkan


Death Under the Tsar

A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia

by Anna Politkovskaya, translated from the Russian by Arch Tait, with a foreword by Scott Simon


The Sharpest Thorn

Orwell in Tribune: "As I Please" and Other Writings 1943–7

compiled and edited by Paul Anderson


Fascinating Narcissism

Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl

by Steven Bach

Leni Riefenstahl: A Life

by Jürgen Trimborn, translated from the German by Edna McCown


The Art of Risk

Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

translated from the Greek by Anne Carson


The Visible Man

Ralph Ellison: A Biography

by Arnold Rampersad


Love & Heresy in John Donne

John Donne: The Reformed Soul

by John Stubbs


The Specter Haunting Your Office

The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences

by Louis Uchitelle

The Great American Jobs Scam

by Greg LeRoy

The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism

by John C. Bogle


The Power of the Prickly Pear

The Eagle's Throne

by Carlos Fuentes, translated from the Spanish by Kristina Cordero


In Braque’s Studio

Georges Braque: A Life

by Alex Danchev


English Abolition: The Movie

Amazing Grace

a film directed by Michael Apted


The Other Einstein

Einstein: His Life and Universe

by Walter Isaacson

Einstein: A Biography

by Jürgen Neffe, translated from the German by Shelley Frisch

'Subtle Is the Lord': The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein

by Abraham Pais

The Private Lives of Albert Einstein

by Roger Highfield andPaul Carter

Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance

by Dennis Overbye

Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time

by Peter Galison

Einstein on Politics

edited by David Rowe and Robert Schulmann

Einstein on Race and Racism

by Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein

by Albert Einstein

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