Matisse/Diebenkorn

an exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art, October 23, 2016–January 29, 2017; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, March 11–May 29, 2017

Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné

edited by Jane Livingston and Andrea Liguori

Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed

edited by the Cantor Arts Center

Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital

by David Oshinsky

The Killing Wind: A Chinese County’s Descent into Madness During the Cultural Revolution

by Tan Hecheng, translated from the Chinese by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian

Arrival

a film directed by Denis Villeneuve

Stories of Your Life and Others

by Ted Chiang

A Kingdom of Their Own: The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster

by Joshua Partlow

Caliphate: The History of an Idea

by Hugh Kennedy

Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea

by Shiraz Maher

The Master Plan: ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory

by Brian H. Fishman

Kerry James Marshall: Mastry

an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, April 23–September 25, 2016; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, October 25, 2016–January 29, 2017; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, March 12–July 2, 2017

Emily Dickinson’s Poems As She Preserved Them

edited by Cristanne Miller

A Quiet Passion

a film directed by Terence Davies

Amherst

by William Nicholson

A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century

by Jerome Charyn

Beethoven for a Later Age: Living with the String Quartets

by Edward Dusinberre

The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution

by Robert Parkinson

Zama

by Antonio Di Benedetto, translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen