Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America
by James Poniewozik
Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
by Matt Taibbi
Celestial Bodies
by Jokha Alharthi, translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth
Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory
an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, December 15, 2018–March 31, 2019; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, May 4–August 4, 2019; and the Met Breuer, New York City, September 24, 2019–January 12, 2020
Vija Celmins: Selected Prints
an exhibition at the Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York City, September 12–November 2, 2019
Vija Celmins: Ocean Prints
an exhibition at the Matthew Marks Gallery, New York City, September 13–October 26, 2019
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
by Timothy C. Winegard
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
a PBS documentary series produced by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
by Eric Foner
Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS
by Azadeh Moaveni
Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
edited by Zahra Hankir, with a foreword by Christiane Amanpour
For Sama
a film directed by Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts
Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler
an exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum, New York City, September 17, 2019–January 26, 2020
The Hidden Art: 20th- and 21st-Century Self-Taught Artists from the Audrey B. Heckler Collection
by Valérie Rousseau with Jane Kallir, Anne-Imelda Radice, and others
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World
by Christopher de Hamel
The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript from Genocide to Justice
by Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh
Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World Through Illuminated Manuscripts
edited by Bryan C. Keene
Selected Writings
by Alexander von Humboldt, edited and with an introduction by Andrea Wulf
Alexander von Humboldt: How the Most Famous Scientist of the Romantic Age Found the Soul of Nature
by Maren Meinhardt
Humboldt’s Mexico: In the Footsteps of the Illustrious German Scientific Traveller
by Myron Echenberg
A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939–1940
by Iris Origo, with an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett and an afterword by Katia Lysy
War in Val d’Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943–1944
by Iris Origo, with an introduction by Virginia Nicholson
Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World
by Samuel Moyn
Necessary Evil: How to Fix Finance by Saving Human Rights
by David Kinley
The Evenings: A Winter’s Tale
by Gerard Reve, translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett
Childhood: Two Novellas
by Gerard Reve, translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett
Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics
by Robert Skidelsky