Photography and the American Civil War

an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, April 2–September 2, 2013; the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina, September 27, 2013–January 5, 2014; and the New Orleans Museum of Art, January 31–May 4, 2014

Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center

by Ray Monk

Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir

by Amanda Knox

United States v. Windsor
Hollingsworth v. Perry

two cases decided by the Supreme Court, June 26, 2013

Shelby County v. Holder

a case decided by the Supreme Court, June 25, 2013

Fisher v. University of Texas

a case decided by the Supreme Court, June 24, 2013

Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns

by David Margolick

Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century

by Paul Kildea

Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913–1976: Volume Six, 1966–1976

edited by Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke

Britten’s Unquiet Pasts: Sound and Memory in Postwar Reconstruction

by Heather Wiebe

Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy

by Gary May

Ten White Geese

by Gerbrand Bakker, translated from the Dutch by David Colmer

Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father—and How We Can Fix It

by David Goldhill

Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us

a special report by Steven Brill

Forged: Why Fakes Are the Great Art of Our Age

by Jonathon Keats

Art Forgery: The History of a Modern Obsession

by Thierry Lenain

Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger

by Ken Perenyi

The Wartime Journals

by Hugh Trevor-Roper, edited by Richard Davenport-Hines

Necessary Errors

by Caleb Crain

The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet

by Lawrence J. Friedman, with assistance from Anke M. Schreiber

Tested by Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

by Elliott Abrams

The Future of the Jews: How Global Forces Are Impacting the Jewish People, Israel, and Its Relationship with the United States

by Stuart E. Eizenstat

Israel, Jordan, and Palestine: The Two-State Imperative

by Asher Susser

Beyond the Two-State Solution: A Jewish Political Essay

by Yehouda Shenhav, translated from the Hebrew by Dimi Reider and Efrat Weiss

The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays

by Simon Leys

Metaphysical Dog

by Frank Bidart

The Chinese Question in Central Asia: Domestic Order, Social Change and the Chinese Factor

by Marlène Laruelle and Sébastien Peyrouse

Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia

by Alexander Cooley

Central Asia and Afghanistan: Insulation on the Silk Road, Between Eurasia and the Heart of Asia

a report by Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh

Restless Valley: Revolution, Murder and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia

by Philip Shishkin

China’s Central Asian Problem

a report by the International Crisis Group