Peter Doig

an exhibition at Tate Britain, London, February 5–April 27, 2008; the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, May 21–September 14, 2008; and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, October 9, 2008–January 11, 2009.

My Three Fathers: And the Elegant Deceptions of My Mother, Susan Mary Alsop

by William S. Patten

The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay

by Louis Begley

Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

edited by Simon Cottee and Thomas Cushman, with an afterword by Christopher Hitchens

The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom

by Martin Amis

Macbeth

a play by William Shakespeare, directed by Rupert Goold

Macbeth

an opera by Giuseppe Verdi, directed by Adrian Noble

Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes

by Jim Holt

Looking at Laughter: Humor, Power, and Transgression in Roman Visual Culture, 100 BC–AD 250

by John R. Clarke

The Plague of Doves

by Louise Erdrich

Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830

by J.H. Elliott

Fire and Knowledge: Fiction and Essays

by Péter Nádas, translated from the Hungarian by Imre Goldstein