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The Trial

Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial

by Janet Malcolm


Killing Orson Welles at Midnight

The Clock

a film by Christian Marclay


The Obedient Bellow

Saul Bellow: Letters

edited by Benjamin Taylor


‘Deft, Ingenious, Creepy’

George Condo: Mental States

an exhibition at the New Museum, New York City, January 26–May 8, 2011; the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, June 25–September 25, 2011; the Hayward Gallery, London, October 18, 2011–January 15, 2012;

The Imaginary Portraits of George Condo

with an essay by Ralph Rugoff


A Different Gandhi

Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India

by Joseph Lelyveld


Windsor Knot

Even in the face of looming austerity, the royals’ appeal remains resilient.

A ‘Tenuously Reformed Pervert’

The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women

by James Ellroy


She Woke Them Up

Twin: A Memoir

by Allen Shawn


Sunlight on MacNeice

Letters of Louis MacNeice

selected and edited by Jonathan Allison


The Quiet Genius

L'Armoire secrète: Eine Leserin im Kontext (The Secret Cabinet: A Reader in Context)

an exhibition at the Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur, Switzerland, February 4–May 15, 2011.


Circles of Hell

Voices from the Gulag

edited by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and translated from the Russian by Kenneth Lantz

Gulag Voices: An Anthology

edited by Anne Applebaum

The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin

by Stephen F. Cohen

Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir

by Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky, translated from the Russian and edited by Deborah Kaple


An Experiment with Wonder

Gryphon: New and Selected Stories

by Charles Baxter


The High Art of the Tamale

Oaxaca al Gusto: An Infinite Gastronomy

by Diana Kennedy


We Are More English Than We Know

When London Was Capital of America

by Julie Flavell


‘The Birth of a Classic’

Justice for Hedgehogs

by Ronald Dworkin


Showing Off

My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy

by Nora Titone, with a foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin


Recharging Chinese Art

The Emperor's Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City

an exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, September 14, 2010–January 9, 2011; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, February 3–May 1, 2011; and the Milwaukee Art Museum, June 11–September 12, 2011.

Fresh Ink: Ten Takes on Chinese Tradition

an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, November 20, 2010–February 13, 2011.

Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents

edited by Wu Hung, with Peggy Wang


The Wall Street Leviathan

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report: Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States

Inside Job

a film directed by Charles Ferguson

Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance

edited by Viral V. Acharya, Thomas F. Cooley, Matthew P. Richardson, and Ingo Walter

Reforming US Financial Markets: Reflections Before and Beyond Dodd-Frank

by Randall S. Kroszner and Robert J. Shiller, edited and with an introduction by Benjamin M. Friedman

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