To Calais, in Ordinary Time
by James Meek
The Corner That Held Them
by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Rachel Harrison Life Hack
an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, October 25, 2019–January 12, 2020
Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler
by Cate Haste
Beirut Hellfire Society
by Rawi Hage
Cockroach
by Rawi Hage
De Niro's Game
by Rawi Hage
Grinnell: America’s Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West
by John Taliaferro
Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America's Public Lands
by John Clayton
Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity
by Vladimir Bukovsky, translated from the Russian by Alyona Kojevnikov
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
by Andrew Delbanco
In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury
an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, September 6, 2019–January 12, 2020
Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad
by Daniel Byman
Targeting Top Terrorists: Understanding Leadership Removal in Counterterrorism Strategy
by Bryan C. Price
The London Bombings
by Marc Sageman
Zwicky: The Outcast Genius Who Unmasked the Universe
by John Johnson Jr.
De Gaulle
by Julian Jackson
The Storyteller Essays
by Walter Benjamin, edited and with an introduction by Samuel Titan and translated from the German by Tess Lewis