Wiener Werkstätte, 1903–1932: The Luxury of Beauty
an exhibition at the Neue Galerie, New York City, October 26, 2017–January 29, 2018
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
by Daniel Ellsberg
Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture
by Laurence Senelick
The Real “Tales of Hoffmann”: Origin, History, and Restoration of an Operatic Masterpiece
by Vincent Giroud and Michael Kaye, with a foreword by Plácido Domingo
Les contes d’Hoffmann
an opera by Jacques Offenbach, directed by Bartlett Sher, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, September 26–October 28, 2017
Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror
by Gary Fields
Churchill
a film directed by Jonathan Teplitzky
Darkest Hour
a film directed by Joe Wright
Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, November 13, 2017–February 12, 2018
The Poems of Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, and The Shield of Herakles
translated from the Greek by Barry B. Powell
The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar’s Genocide
by Azeem Ibrahim, with a foreword by Muhammad Yunus
Islam and the State in Myanmar: Muslim–Buddhist Relations and the Politics of Belonging
edited by Melissa Crouch
The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad
by Alexis Peri
Leningrad 1941–1942: Morality in a City Under Siege
by Sergey Yarov, translated from the Russian by Arch Tait
Besieged Leningrad: Aesthetic Responses to Urban Disaster
by Polina Barskova
Written in the Dark: Five Poets in the Siege of Leningrad
edited and with an introduction by Polina Barskova, translated from the Russian by Anand Dibble and seven others
Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke
by Richard Bourke
Keeping On Keeping On
by Alan Bennett
Balancing Acts: Behind the Scenes at London’s National Theatre
by Nicholas Hytner
Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott
Attack of the Fifty Foot Blockchain: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum and Smart Contracts
by David Gerard
Alex Katz
an exhibition at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York City, November 5–December 22, 2017
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