Girls

a television series on HBO created by Lena Dunham

The Harm in Hate Speech

by Jeremy Waldron

The Beginner’s Goodbye

by Anne Tyler

The Crisis of Zionism

by Peter Beinart

Cindy Sherman

an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, February 26–June 11, 2012

Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

by George Dyson

Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937–1948

by Madeleine Albright, with Bill Woodward

The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin

edited and with an introduction and commentary by Archie Burnett

US Education Reform and National Security

by Joel I. Klein, Condoleezza Rice, and others

Edward Durell Stone: A Son’s Untold Story of a Legendary Architect

by Hicks Stone

Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

by Steve Coll

The Lower River

by Paul Theroux

Why Trilling Matters

by Adam Kirsch

The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic

by Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule

Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter

by Terrence W. Deacon

Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination

an exhibition at the British Library, London, November 11, 2011–March 13, 2012

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson