The Widows of Eastwick

by John Updike

Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial

by Alison Bass

Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs

by Melody Petersen

Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness

by Christopher Lane

Mantegna, 1431–1506

an exhibition at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, September 26, 2008– January 5, 2009.

Giovanni Bellini

an exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, September 30, 2008– January 11, 2009

Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values

by Philippe Sands

The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld: A Prosecution by Book

by Michael Ratner and the Center for Constitutional Rights

Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond

by Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh

Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life

by Paul Mariani

Exiles

by Ron Hansen.

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

by Niall Ferguson

Doctor Atomic

an opera in two acts by John Adams, libretto by Peter Sellars, directed by Penny Woolcock, with stage design by Julian Crouch

Sea of Poppies

by Amitav Ghosh

The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab–Israeli Peace

by Aaron David Miller

Negotiating Arab–Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East

by Daniel C. Kurtzer and Scott B. Lasensky

Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East

by Martin Indyk

Thomas Chambers: American Marine and Landscape Painter, 1808–1869

an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 27– December 28, 2008; the Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, February 8–April 19, 2009; the American Folk Art Museum, New York City, September 29, 2009–March 7, 2010; and the Indiana Univers