Lake Views: This World and the Universe

by Steven Weinberg

A Streetcar Named Desire

by Tennessee Williams, directed by Liv Ullmann and performed by the Sydney Theatre Company

The Glass Menagerie

by Tennessee Williams, directed by Gordon Edelstein

Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front

by Joel Salatin

All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America?

by Joel Berg

Eating Animals

by Jonathan Safran Foer

Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities

by Carlo Petrini, with a foreword by Alice Waters


The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society

by Janet A. Flammang

Eight White Nights

by André Aciman

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael Lewis

Creditors

by August Strindberg, a production by the Donmar Warehouse, London, directed by Alan Rickman

Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters

by Louis Begley

For the Soul of France: Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus

by Frederick Brown

Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century

by Ruth Harris

American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

by Joan Biskupic

John Paul Stevens: An Independent Life

by Bill Barnhart and Gene Schlickman

The Silences of Hammerstein: A German Story

by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, translated from the German by Martin Chalmers

Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered

a recent exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Milwaukee Art Museum; and the Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam

Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam

by Gordon M. Goldstein

An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson

by Andro Linklater

The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon

by John Ferling