They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans
by Macon Fry
Pessoa: A Biography
by Richard Zenith
The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, June 26–October 11, 2021
Alice Neel: People Come First
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, March 22–August 1, 2021
The Political Portrait: Leadership, Image and Power
edited by Luciano Cheles and Alessandro Giacone
The Obama Portraits
by Taína Caragol, Dorothy Moss, Richard J. Powell, and Kim Sajet
The Obama Portraits Tour
an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
by Craig Whitlock
The American War in Afghanistan: A History
by Carter Malkasian
Motley Stones
by Adalbert Stifter, translated from the German by Isabel Fargo Cole
An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries
by Emma Rothschild
The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend About Jews and Finance Tells Us About the Making of European Commercial Society
by Francesca Trivellato
A Wild Note of Longing: Albert Pinkham Ryder and a Century of American Art
an exhibition at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts, June 24–October 31, 2021
The Artful Dickens: Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist
by John Mullan
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
by A.N. Wilson
Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe
by Verena Krebs
A Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea
edited by Samantha Kelly
A Contextual Reading of Ethiopian Crosses Through Form and Ritual: Kaleidoscopes of Meaning
by Maria Evangelatou
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
by Merlin Sheldrake
The Book of Travels
by Ḥannā Diyāb, edited by Johannes Stephan, translated from the Arabic by Elias Muhanna, and with a foreword by Yasmine Seale and an afterword by Paulo Lemos Horta
The Shepherd’s Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
by James Rebanks
Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey
by James Rebanks
Fall: The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britain’s Most Notorious Media Baron
by John Preston
Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa
by Brian J. Peterson
France’s Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa
by Nathaniel K. Powell
Living by the Gun in Chad: Combatants, Impunity and State Formation
by Marielle Debos, translated from the French by Andrew Brown
The Trial of Hissène Habré: How the People of Chad Brought a Tyrant to Justice
by Celeste Hicks
On the cover: Moshtari Hilal: Family Series, 2020/2021.