A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill
edited by Langdon Hammer and Stephen Yenser
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago
by Alex Kotlowitz
Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence—and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
by Thomas Abt
Days
a film written and directed by Tsai Ming-liang
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
a film written and directed by Tsai Ming-liang, restored by the Cinematek–Royal Belgian Film Archive and Homegreen Films
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
by Nick Pinkerton
Tsai Ming-liang 2020
a traveling retrospective at Doc Films, Chicago, January 10–March 15, 2020; the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C.; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City (currently postponed due to Covid-19 restrictions)
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
by Linda Colley
Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation
by Claudio Lomnitz
A Lover’s Discourse
by Xiaolu Guo
Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life
by Howard Steven Friedman
The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard
by John Birdsall
Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn
edited and with an introduction by Andrei Codrescu, with a foreword by Jack Zipes
Japanese Ghost Stories
by Lafcadio Hearn, edited by Paul Murray
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
by Lafcadio Hearn, with photographs by Hiroshi Watanabe and an introduction by Paul Murray
When Machines Can Be Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Justice in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by Katherine B. Forrest
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
by Michela Wrong
Alindarka’s Children (Things Will Be Bad)
by Alhierd Bacharevič, translated from the Belarusian by Jim Dingley and Petra Reid