Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America

by James Poniewozik

Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another

by Matt Taibbi

Celestial Bodies

by Jokha Alharthi, translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth

Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory

an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, December 15, 2018–March 31, 2019; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, May 4–August 4, 2019; and the Met Breuer, New York City, September 24, 2019–January 12, 2020

Vija Celmins: Selected Prints

an exhibition at the Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York City, September 12–November 2, 2019

Vija Celmins: Ocean Prints

an exhibition at the Matthew Marks Gallery, New York City, September 13–October 26, 2019

The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator

by Timothy C. Winegard

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

a PBS documentary series produced by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

by Eric Foner

Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS

by Azadeh Moaveni

Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World

edited by Zahra Hankir, with a foreword by Christiane Amanpour

For Sama

a film directed by Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts

Herman Melville: Complete Poems

edited by Hershel Parker

Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler

an exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum, New York City, September 17, 2019–January 26, 2020

The Hidden Art: 20th- and 21st-Century Self-Taught Artists from the Audrey B. Heckler Collection

by Valérie Rousseau with Jane Kallir, Anne-Imelda Radice, and others

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World

by Christopher de Hamel

The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript from Genocide to Justice

by Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh

Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World Through Illuminated Manuscripts

edited by Bryan C. Keene

Selected Writings

by Alexander von Humboldt, edited and with an introduction by Andrea Wulf

Alexander von Humboldt: How the Most Famous Scientist of the Romantic Age Found the Soul of Nature

by Maren Meinhardt

Humboldt’s Mexico: In the Footsteps of the Illustrious German Scientific Traveller

by Myron Echenberg

A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939–1940

by Iris Origo, with an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett and an afterword by Katia Lysy

War in Val d’Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943–1944

by Iris Origo, with an introduction by Virginia Nicholson

Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World

by Samuel Moyn

Necessary Evil: How to Fix Finance by Saving Human Rights

by David Kinley

The Evenings: A Winter’s Tale

by Gerard Reve, translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett

Childhood: Two Novellas

by Gerard Reve, translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett

Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics

by Robert Skidelsky