The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy

by Yassin al-Haj Saleh, with a foreword by Robin Yassin-Kassab

The Caliphate at War: Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State

by Ahmed S. Hashim

We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

by Wendy Pearlman

Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria

by Nikolaos Van Dam

Mrs. Osmond

by John Banville

The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution

by Yuri Slezkine

21 rue La Boétie

an exhibition at the Musée de La Boverie de Liège, September 22, 2016–February 19, 2017; and the Musée Maillol, Paris, March 2–July 23, 2017

A Legacy of Spies

by John le Carré

The Vietnam War

a documentary directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

The Vietnam War: An Intimate History

by Geoffrey C. Ward, with an introduction by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

Lou Reed: A Life

by Anthony DeCurtis

Prêcher dans le désert: Islam politique et changement social en Mauritanie [Preaching in the Desert: Political Islam and Social Change in Mauritania]

by Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem

The Aeneid

by Virgil, translated from the Latin by David Ferry

Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

by Katy Tur

The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War

by Peter Guardino

The Book of Disquiet

by Fernando Pessoa, edited by Jerónimo Pizarro, and translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

Benched: Abortion, Terrorists, Drones, Crooks, Supreme Court, Kennedy, Nixon, Demi Moore, and Other Tales from the Life of a Federal Judge

by Jon O. Newman

Miłosz: A Biography

by Andrzej Franaszek, edited and translated from the Polish by Aleksandra and Michael Parker

Jottings Under Lamplight

by Lu Xun, edited by Eileen J. Cheng and Kirk A. Denton

A New Literary History of Modern China

edited by David Der-wei Wang

Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics

by Nicole Hemmer

Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle

by Jeff Flake

The Working-Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism

by Henry Olsen