The Wright Brothers

by David McCullough

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

by Ashlee Vance

Portable Classic

an exhibition at the Fondazione Prada, Ca’ Corner della Regina, Venice, May 9–September 13, 2015

Serial/Portable Classic: The Greek Canon and Its Mutations

Catalog of the exhibitions at the Fondazione Prada, Milan, and Palazzo Corner, Venice, edited by Salvatore Settis with Anna Anguissola and Davide Gasparotto

Serial Classic

an exhibition at the Fondazione Prada, Milan, May 9–August 24, 2015

Piccoli Grandi Bronzi

an exhibition at the National Archaeological Museum, Florence, March 20–August 31, 2015

Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World

an exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, March 14–June 21, 2015; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, July 28–November 1, 2015; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., December 13, 2015–March 20, 2016

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

by Bruce Schneier

The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones: Confronting a New Age of Threat

by Benjamin Wittes and Gabriella Blum

A War Like No Other: The Constitution in a Time of Terror

by Owen Fiss, edited and with a foreword by Trevor Sutton

Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins

by Andrew Cockburn

The Rival Queens: Catherine de’ Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite of Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom

by Nancy Goldstone

Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist

by Pierre Birnbaum, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer

ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror

by Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan

ISIS: The State of Terror

by Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

by William Finnegan

The Governance of China

by Xi Jinping

Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping: Renaissance, Reform, or Retrogression?

by Willy Wo-Lap Lam

The Musical Brain and Other Stories

by César Aira, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews

Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home

an encyclical letter by Pope Francis

The Contender: Andrew Cuomo, A Biography

by Michael Shnayerson

All Things Possible: Setbacks and Success in Politics and Life

by Andrew M. Cuomo

Revolutions Without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World

by Janet Polasky

The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry

by Helen Vendler

Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes

by Per Petterson, translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett

I Refuse

by Per Petterson, translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett

Europe on Trial: The Story of Collaboration, Resistance, and Retribution During World War II

by István Deák

White Magic: The Age of Paper

by Lothar Müller, translated from the German by Jessica Spengler

The Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family

by Roger Cohen

Major Works on Religion and Politics

by Reinhold Niebuhr, edited by Elisabeth Sifton